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Re:Blink tag removed from Firefox by chucklarge on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @11:59PM (#6170741)
I'm using SlickGrid[1] in an internal tool. It uses divs and spans to display data, so there are certainly nice examples that do so.

1. https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid

Re:Blink tag removed from Firefox by glesica on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @12:27AM (#6170833)
But why would you want that? The whole point of moving from <table> to <div> for layout was that using <table> wasn't semantic and was the wrong tool for the job. But <table> is the right tool for displaying tabular data. That's its entire purpose for existing. Using <div> to display tabular data is a regression.

Edit: typo

Re:Blink tag removed from Firefox by chucklarge on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @11:19PM (#6177175)
I don't disagree, just pointing out that there are ways to achieve a tabular layout without an html table. Tables are for data right?

On the other hand, I like the idea of less and more generic constructs that can be adapted to achieve some need. Specialized tags like dd, address, details, summary, code, blockquote, etc just seem superfluous.