Ask HN: Seriously, what's wrong with HTML tables?

Re:Ask HN: Seriously, what's wrong with HTML tables? by bsk on Monday November 15, 2010 @02:18PM (#1907458)

Here are a couple reasons:

- At one point the design becomes a nightmare to maintain. I've worked on some web apps, where we had pages with 15 levels deep tables in tables in tables ...

- Separating the semantic information in .html from the design in .css. Can help with SEO, screen readers, cashing.

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Re:Ask HN: Seriously, what's wrong with HTML tables? by rimantas on Monday November 15, 2010 @03:14PM (#1907666)

15 level deep? That's nothing. Try http://www.telsiai.lt/ I did not count the nesting level, but the total number of tables according to my bookmarklet is 348. Yep, we do have some wonderful CMS over there…

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Re:Ask HN: Seriously, what's wrong with HTML tables? by hyperlexic on Monday November 15, 2010 @04:33PM (#1907944)

plenty of divs and spans out there on major sites that nest so far down it looks almost like a fractal.

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Re:Ask HN: Seriously, what's wrong with HTML tables? by rycole on Monday November 15, 2010 @02:54PM (#1907600)

I'm currently maintaining an application that uses Coldfusion and has a table based layout. It's a nightmare.

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