Re: [drupal-devel] phptemplate in core?

Jeremy Epstein said: [...]

Someone pointed out that tableless layouts do actually validate as XHTML. This is true, but is no excuse for using such layouts when you don't have to. We all know that they're bad for accessibility (screen readers), portability (browsers in phones), etc.

I'm not sure who the "we" in the above sentence is, but that's certainly not been my experience. It's much easier to make @media handheld or voice stylesheets when you're not using TABLE tags, but semantically-correct tags. So, not only are tableless layouts good for accessibility, but they reduce page load time and page size. The only reason *not* to use them, AFAIAC, is because of buggy or missing CSS support among browsers. -- Tim Altman