Marco Schuster <marco <at> harddisk.is-a-geek.org> writes:
How big is the market share of such buggy browsers
(and what are
they)? I'd prefer progress and nice, clean code over having to keep
old cruft just because some people still use middle-age browsers.
Amongst other things, IE6 and 7 do not understand the CSS property
"border-spacing", which would be the easy way to replace cellspacing.
Considering that IE8 reverts to compatibility mode on Wikimedia sites, that's a
market share of 50% or so :/
Anyway, removing table-related attributes doesn't offer much advantage in
itself. There will be a few validator warnings about it, so what? Getting rid of
table layouts would be nice, but IE6/7 do not understand display:table either,
so until IE 6 and 7 die and 8 stops trying to be backwards-compatible, they are
here to stay, I'm afraid.