april_floyd Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 From what I gather from various web design articles. It is considered that you should not use tables in web design. I note that oscommerce uses tables. Why is this?
rstevenson Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 From what I gather from various web design articles. It is considered that you should not use tables in web design. I note that oscommerce uses tables. Why is this? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I can't speak for OSC's primary developers of course, but it's still quite common to use tables to hold page elements where you want them. It's not recommended any more - you're supposed to use tables for tabular data - but it's still common. Why? There are still far too many browsers in use out there that don't properly handle the kind of CSS (styles) required to hold pieces in place on pages. In other words, CSS positioning is not well supported in many of the browsers in use. The latest versions of all graphical browsers do support it of course, but millions of users don't bother (or don't even know) to upgrade their browser once in a while. I understand that OSC 2.3 - now in development - will use a lot more CSS and far fewer tables. I've no idea when it might be available. Rob
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