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Re:Ask HN: Seriously, what's wrong with HTML tables? by rimantas on Monday November 15, 2010 @03:11PM (#1907656) 

  And then, on the other hand, there are the things no one
  wants to say: the advantages tables have over CSS. In
  particular, it's obvious to me that CSS was not designed
  with modern layouts in mind. The fact that it works at all
  is really just an accident: it turned out that you can make
  columns using floats (how 'bout that?).
Oh, come on. If some are still stuck with IE6 this does not mean that CSS is only capable that much. Time to learn some modern CSS, folks (hint: IE8+ supports display: table-*).

And anyone who thinks that tables are easier to deal with either did not work enough with CSS or did not care enough. In 1996-2003 I was building stuff tables way, in 2004 I went full CSS and never looked back.

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Re:Ask HN: Seriously, what's wrong with HTML tables? by hyperlexic on Monday November 15, 2010 @04:28PM (#1907930)
IE6 still has a surprisingly large user base according to my analytics reports. some of my clients' sites are seeing above 30% still using IE6. hopefully IT departments will go to windows 7 or something, because seriously - what year is this?
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Re:Ask HN: Seriously, what's wrong with HTML tables? by ggchappell on Monday November 15, 2010 @08:12PM (#1908645)
> And anyone who thinks that tables are easier to deal with either did not work enough with CSS or did not care enough.

Probably both, in my case. :-)

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