| CSS and Tables: The hype and the trends | | | | widely demonized. Web purists claim that tables were |
| The History of tables | | | | never meant for layout so one shouldn't use them |
| Before tables came along, the web was a pretty dull | | | | for such. A rapidly progressive hype seems to be in |
| place. Using tables forlayout opened up new vistas of | | | | the air all around. |
| possibilities of visually "designing" a page. | | | | Reality behind the hype |
| It could well be argued that table based layout was | | | | Despite the fact that pioneers have been talking |
| responsible for the popularityof the web and the field | | | | about web standards for a long time, the majority of |
| of web design. | | | | web sites are still developed using tables and non |
| Worse still, over the last few years, table based | | | | standards compliant code . |
| layout has come under severe criticism and was | | | | |