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[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-10-04 14:42:22 -0400, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> said:

> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> The layout breaks in anything but the default text zoom.
> 
> The annoying thing about this is everyone says "don't use tables for 
> layout, use CSS." Except that using CSS for layout DOESN'T WORK 
> RELIABLY. With tables, I can get 3 columns that are actually 3 columns, 
> not 3 columns that are a side effect of bugs in CSS.

Very true. CSS is great, except when you want columns, especially more 
than 2 columns with where columns have a background that must end at 
the same height.

That said, you could play with `display: table`. But the basic problem 
with `display: table` (like many "advanced" things in CSS) is that it 
won't work much with IE less than 8. Can you believe it took so long 
for Microsoft to implement this important part of a specification from 
2009 (CSS 2.1)? This is really the problem with the web: the dominant 
browser stopped evolving during a long period and is only now beginning 
to catch up. So now we're navigating in a sea of workarounds because 
everyone needs columns and other things that need a hack to work in IE.

Let's hope it gets better in the coming years as older versions of IE 
become obsolete.


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Michel Fortin
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