Table-Based Layout is the Next Big Thing, Laying out "tables" with CSS Options

[mipadi]

Good article on mimicking tables with CSS here.

I actually pulled the article from here. The comments in both articles are pretty enlightening.

[queen]

FINALLY. SUPPORT FOR TABLES :O i'm glad 'cause i'm such a table coder ;x </rebelliousness>

What exactly was wrong with the <table> tag, anyway? Why is everyone so against it?

it's been a long fought war between table and table-less design coding. imo, it's just about preferences, but there are people out there that will argue to the death the technical advantages of divs over tables (enter the web 2.0 trend).

i do love tables though. i think it makes the coding more organized and structured, tabular data or not.

What are the benefits of this to using divs and positioning? A time-saver?

if you're just going to put one thing, let's say an image, in a particular spot on a page, then yes, div positioning is way easier, as it only takes a couple lines of coding to position the image just right.

i think people in that article are most concerned about --as are most "table coders"-- the three column layout, which is pretty annoying to do using divs with unordered lists and floats.