Look alive. Here comes a buzzard. » Web development http://blog.glenc.net Treading water in a sea of man-made confusion. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:34:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Yahoo Grid CSS – What’s the Point? http://blog.glenc.net/2006/06/22/yahoo-grid-css-whats-the-point/ http://blog.glenc.net/2006/06/22/yahoo-grid-css-whats-the-point/#comments Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:10:15 +0000 glenc http://blogtmp.glenc.net/2006/06/22/yahoo-grid-css-whats-the-point/ Yahoo recently released a set of style sheets for creating various page layouts using divs instead of tables. I guess I just don't get why this is so desirable. Looking at the code you have to create, I don't see how it's any less code than doing tables. And I don't quite buy the argument that this allows you to completely redesign your site without having to touch the markup. In my experience we design our content to fit a particular layout and changing that layout will also result in a change needed in the content. So the savings just aren't there.

But, I could be wrong. This could be a great thing. It just seems like tables are one of those things that are perfectly suited for creating layouts on a page that won't go all funky when you resize, have a different browser, etc. I'm all for moving styling into CSS, but I just don't see the reason to move away from tables for layout.

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