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Enough with hacks

Posted by: nervous on: November 17, 2006

A couple of days ago at vitamin.com Simon Griffin posted an article about websites that break on the new Internet Explorer version 7.
He made an extensive research through the websites of 100 companies on the FTSE 100 Index in order to see the differences between visualization on Internet Explorer version 6 and version 7.
Bottom line [...]

Don’t replace tables with divs

Posted by: nervous on: November 1, 2006

How many times we’ve heard this phrase: stop using tables for layout, use divs instead?
This is the most common misleading phrase that can be told to a webdeveloper who still uses tables for layout.
Every standard-semantic acknowledged webdeveloper knows the downside effects of using divs as replacement for tables. Overuse of divs, commonly known as divitis, [...]