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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by mrtron on Friday January 18, 2008 @07:51PM (#100642)
I was a lead developer on a massive website...

If you are a programmer on a large site you won't touch the design. It will be done by a skilled designer, or designing firm. You won't care how its done whatsoever.

There is a lot more to say here...but basically you won't touch the design. Or want to. Or care how its done :)

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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by run4yourlives on Friday January 18, 2008 @07:56PM (#100649)
Which is why you shouldn't be using HTML to "present" data. You do exactly this when you attempt to use tables for things other than tabular data.
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Re:Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based? by sbraford on Friday January 18, 2008 @11:17PM (#100768)
Boy, would I love to never have to think of XHTML/CSS.

The reality has always been quite different.

At least churning out valid XHTML+CSS from Photoshop designs has now become a commodity business: http://onwebapps.com/39-photoshop-psd-to-xhtml-css-services/

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