Wow, I never knew people actually thought it was easier. If using a table based layout you have to type many many more characters and keep a mental log of what's in where.
If using a table based layout you have to type
many many more characters and keep a mental
log of what's in where.
Not when generating HTML via a program. It's trivial to generate complex recursive nested table layouts that reflect/mirror the structure of the underlying data.
Honestly, understanding how to use floats and clears properly is one of the hardest "computing" concepts to learn out there. First of all, they're a completely non-intuitive way of structuring layout, and secondly, they can break in 1000 different ways if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
For anyone who doesn't do CSS professionally, tables are vastly easier. They're easy to understand, and generally do what you want.
It's just that, as time goes by and your site becomes more and more complicated, tables become less and less flexible and maintainable.
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>because it's easier to understand and hack
Wow, I never knew people actually thought it was easier. If using a table based layout you have to type many many more characters and keep a mental log of what's in where.
Honestly, understanding how to use floats and clears properly is one of the hardest "computing" concepts to learn out there. First of all, they're a completely non-intuitive way of structuring layout, and secondly, they can break in 1000 different ways if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
For anyone who doesn't do CSS professionally, tables are vastly easier. They're easy to understand, and generally do what you want.
It's just that, as time goes by and your site becomes more and more complicated, tables become less and less flexible and maintainable.