Re:CSS Absolute Centering
by dspillett on Saturday August 10, 2013 @12:43PM
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A key problem with table based design is accessibility: while table based designs aren't automatically a problem for screen readers and such, a great many are.
It also makes it far harder for other user agents to make the design fit in small spaces: many table based designs are completely unusable on mobile devices for instance. While the alternative might still not look nice in such an environment, it is more likely to not be completely impractical to use.
Of course if you are presenting something that naturally fits in a tabular structure, tables are the thing to use as that is what they are designed for.
It also makes it far harder for other user agents to make the design fit in small spaces: many table based designs are completely unusable on mobile devices for instance. While the alternative might still not look nice in such an environment, it is more likely to not be completely impractical to use.
Of course if you are presenting something that naturally fits in a tabular structure, tables are the thing to use as that is what they are designed for.