Shanti’s Dispatches

Web2.0flow.com (great name) has come up with a list of 30 major sites that are still using tables (presumably, for layout structure).

# Yahoo.com - Clean
# Google.com - Tables inside
# YouTube.com - You don´t believe how many they have
# Live.com - Only one… Hmm… not bad at all
# MSN.com - Only one… Amazing!
# MySpace.com - A place for tables… and friends?
# FaceBook.com - Here hang out the tables too.
# Wikipedia.com - Tables, tables, tablepedia over here
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You get the idea. Oh boy. I could really go off on the rant deepend here.

Let’s just say, table nazis drive me freaking nuts.

Best example: table nazi spends 2 hours trying to get things working correctly in CSS. Problem is, the CSS still doesn’t look 100% great in all browsers so every few days the floated sidebar div takes a shit and ends up at the bottom of the page, instead of in the top right.

So instead of working on real, new features, we’re wasting time debugging the same silly CSS issues day in and day out.

The solution? I spend 5 minutes using tables instead of a floated div; the right sidebar never takes a crap anymore, it’s always aligned at the top with a little valign=”top” love. Life is good… the only people who care? Table nazis who might happen to view source on our app!! Not, you know, the actual 80% of our users who are in IE6 who might happen to see the sidebar at the bottom of the page because some minor change borked things to heck at the time.

/end rant…

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