<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 11, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Verdana; min-height: 22.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Verdana">Well, I'm not a web designer, but I did work with few of them, and it <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Verdana">seems to me that you either create a table design in two hours or <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Verdana">spend three days trying to create a CSS one and THEN create a table <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Verdana">design in two hours.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>That's an exaggeration. <DIV>It's widely accepted than tables can straightforwardly be dropped in most cases.<DIV>They are intented to be used to present tabular datas, NOT for layout. </DIV><DIV>(This ideas is not new, Zeldman talked about it in 2001)</DIV><DIV>It does require a bit of CSS-Fu, however, as CSS support in browsers varies...</DIV><DIV>But hey, you've got to occupy these HTML-CSS guys ! </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Emmanuel</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>