Afternoon Report

[gothwalk]

I'm spending a lot of time here on small fixes on the site. It's nothing short of amazing how much time they take. I'm also trying to catch up on my web-development lists, and I'm seeing that people using tables in their sites are being told more and more to use CSS instead. Now, while I'm all in favour of CSS, and the separation of content and presentation, it seems that it's not quite time to switch to pure CSS layout. What do y'all out there do with your sites - pure CSS, and leave the old browsers out in the cold, or table layouts, and include everyone at the expense of "proper" standards?

Speaking of web development, I have an article on Evolt now: On Time, Every Time: Timing Material in CF. I'm pleased it's up there, and even more pleased that I've had a request from that for articles for another site.

Comments

[socmot.livejournal.com]

For my weblog I use CSS and div tags, I might do a photoblog soon and will adopt the same philosphy perhaps - although it seems to work much better with tables at the moment.

I will probably experiment with CSS and div tags again for an upcoming non commercial site that I'm taking over this year.

I wouldn't do it for any of the sites I've built for commercial purposes, as I don't want to leave anyone out in terms of their browser.

I think if you can afford to switch over to CSS and tables, you should do so for the sake of convenience - the time it takes to change styles is tiny and you don't have to poke around in HTML all that much either.