Sent by Eric A. Meyer on 29 October 2004 16:04
At 6:27 -0700 10/29/04, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'm not at all an expert. But, last evening I was reading Eric Meyer's
>first book...
If you mean "Eric Meyer on CSS", that's actually my third book.
(Fourth if you count the first edition of the pocket reference as a
separate book.)
> My quibble with the book is that so many of the projects use pages built
>with tables. Since I've moved my little site from html-4 with tables to
>xhtml-1 without tables, I have difficulty translating his project examples
>to my tableless format.
If I remember correctly, out of 13 projects, tables are used in
three of them. That seems to me an unusual definition of "so many"
but I could be wrong.
For one of those, the project goal is to convert a
table-and-spacer layout to a transitional design layout, using simple
tables. In another, as you mentioned, the content being styled is a
monthly calendar, which is in my opinion best represented using a
table. The third is a form-styling exercise, and there is some
thought that forms are also best structured using a table. I decided
to go that route because it would be more familiar to readers, and
also because it was a good chance to show how even when you use a
table, you can keep it lightweight and CSS-friendly. (Okay, actually
I tried to do that with all table-using projects.)
I could've tried to jump through the structural and style hoops
required to eliminate all tables from all projects, but it made more
sense to use transitional (and appropriate) layout techniques
instead. If it makes you feel any better, in "More Eric Meyer on
CSS," a table is used in one out of 10 projects, and that one
involves styling a financial report, which should be contained in a
table anyway.
--
Eric A. Meyer (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone
"CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously."
-- Martina Kosloff (http://www.mako4css.com/)
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