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Old 08-10-2010, 07:39 AM  
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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy View Post
By reading your posts you clearly sound like a programmer or at least someone who has some advanced knowledge. You come at this from a different point of view, and from where you are sitting, it probably makes more sense AND you are more productive to do it your way. Everyone just needs to do it however they do it best.
You're 100% right. I'm a Comp Sci grad and so a lot of the comments on this thread make me bork.

However what's right from my programmer perspective isn't necessarily correct for this industry.

Because:

* Re-designs are rare in this industry so maintenance of tables isn't considered.
* Tables work on the majority if not all of the target browsers.
* Bandwidth is cheap and fast on both the consumer and business side thus the speed advantage of css isn't considered.
* Javascript is seldom used on porn sites so advantages of using css selectors etc. aren't considered.
* CSS has quirks in browsers such as IE6 and IE7 that you don't have to deal with when using tables.

You get the job done and you get the product/service launched; if it works don't break it....but if you want to consider the future or you need flexibility then you should use CSS.
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