[development] Tables in Themes in Drupal 7

[Warren Vail]

Earl, I've already done that search and read most of those and most of them
do a great job of telling that tables are bad and CSS is good, but very few
seem to pinpoint why.

Warren Vail


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On Behalf Of Earl Miles
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 11:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [development] Tables in Themes in Drupal 7

On 5/1/2011 10:07 PM, Warren Vail wrote:
> Now I see that Drupal 7 (a product I have some respect for) seems to
> have none, in those that I have looked into, at least.  Did what I had
> perceived to be merely a prejudice of the lazy make it's way all the way
> into the D7 Platform, or is there some legitimate reason for abandoning
> tabled layouts that I have missed (must I finally buckle down to my own
> laziness and tackle CSS to that depth)?

Since you're going to call people lazy without actually doing your own
research:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+are+tables+bad+for+layout