Daniel Mayer wrote:
It is a pure pipe dream to think that tables are
going
to go away because they are so damn useful and
visually appealing to the great majority of our
readers.
We could eliminate them through code, i.e. don't let people enter
them. This might be (and probably would be!) a terrible idea, but
it's important to keep in mind that unlike matters of prose style,
etc., we actually can control this one at the level of code-enforced
policy.
I'm not saying that we should enforce that there be no tables.
But I do agree with the general critique that some of our pages are
too "over designed" and that tables have been overused to make pages
look pretty, at the expense of simplicity and of the ability to easily
render the pages in other media. (Like text-browsers, for instance)
--Jimbo