Originally posted by Xkeeper
Originally posted by HyperHacker
Originally posted by Pandaren
Uh, Acmlm's post crashes my IE7... Possible reason is this old crappy laptop.
It's IE. What did you expect it to do, render it?
Also, nothing wrong with tables, but it can be fun to try to avoid them. Mine doesn't have any. And then you can brag about how your layout is supposedly better for people with vision problems than if you had used a table, even though those people probably turn layouts off anyway. 
The only thing tables do is force a rigid content-goes-here-in-this-order format. Divs allow you to bypass that and move content wherever-the-fuck-you-feel-like.
You also have to remember that this board is just one big table many small tables. Using div tags just tends to break things; I see quotes going off the edge of the page or other nonsense crap (who remembers posts overlapping other posts? yeah) going on.
That, and divs require a lot more maintainence tha tables to look right; "width 100%, margin 20" doesn't look the same across all browsers, for example, but a table cell with 100 width and two other cells with a 20px image on either side will work just fine everywhere.
Yep, however, I started with divs, so I know how to use them, control them, make them try to not explode in Interned Explorer... (Stupid lack of min-height and min-width *grumble*) Tables just feel weird to me.
Meh.
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