Everything you know about CSS is wrong!
For theses of you who are struggling, like me, trying to deliver
pixel perfect web site. That keeps trying to render exactly the same web page in
IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari. Then you should take a look at this book.
This book draws a nice history line of CSS. From the dream to the nightmare and
from the nightmare to a possible CSS heaven.
With the arrival of IE8, the author takes you to a tour of CSS2.1 and CSS3, and demonstrates how the table layout can help us design in a more standard way, without the pain caused by the browser’s war.
Author: Rachel Andrew
Publisher: SitePoint
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April 14, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Aren’t table layout and CSS layout completely different things?
April 15, 2009 at 11:58 am
Table HTML tag are not considered a good practice, cause TABLE are not supposed to be used for layout. Only to render data as a worksheet.
CSS Table layout, on the other hand, help you keep the same behavior you already know (HTML TAG, colspan, …) but in CSS.
W3C decides to keep the same name, cause it will be easier for the web designer to link the two concepts (behavior).
April 22, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Looks promising, but don’t you think it’s a little early? I mean, with the current browser trends, is the CSS table layout usable enough?
April 24, 2009 at 10:04 am
Not at all !! Many designer guru wrote about it, and urge the people to take advantage of the new CSS features for the browser that support it. But, continue to offer another experience for the IE user. Facebook already do it, and major site will start to follow the trend.
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