Articles about the web
Several of the articles below were published during the "table wars" in 2003/04, when many proponents of CSS-positioning took an extreme anti-table stance. Their claims often didn't stand up to scrutiny, as they could easily have checked for themselves. While I was examining their claims, I discovered that using simple layout-tables made a lot of sense, and that tables could be flexible when styled and positioned using CSS.
For amusement, I wrote all of these articles using tableless, CSS-positioned, templates I designed in 2003. I typically use CSS-positioning, but I see no reason why people without sufficient knowledge to do this should be discouraged from using simple layout-tables.
Layout tables versus CSS positioning
6 articles discussing the value of layout tables:
- Layout tables considered valuable
- Reflections on CSS Positioning
- In defence of layout tables
- A brief history of tables
- Commentary on "Table Manners"
- Saying
Separation of content and presentation
4 articles discussing the separation of content from presentation:
- Separation of concerns
- A content versus presentation paradox
- Content defined by layout
- CSS & mark-up tangled together
Extreme styling for tables
It is possible to do astonishing things with simple tables using valid CSS and no active content. In the rush to impose tableless-layouts on the world, the power of tables had been neglected. Here is proof.
2 articles & many pages about laying-out tables:
Text on the web
4 articles discussing the specification of font properties:
- Text on the web
- Comparisons between font styles
- Font style trends on the web
- Aspect values for web fonts