When you learn HTML and so forth nowadays, the mantra is always “Clean code = better code”.
So why do sites like Mobile Me and Google and Facebook all use huge amounts of tables and other not-semantically correct code?
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When you learn HTML and so forth nowadays, the mantra is always “Clean code = better code”.
So why do sites like Mobile Me and Google and Facebook all use huge amounts of tables and other not-semantically correct code?
Thanks!
Because people still use IE6, unfortunately, and it’s so incredibly bad at CSS as to make it almost worthless for CSS selectors of any sophistication. Until IE6 is gone and dead dead dead in the cold ground, you’re still going to see a lot of this.
If you could see what SharePoint generates, you would probably go into seizures.