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Tichy on March 5, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Table-Based Layout Is The Next Big Thing

Somehow that really hurts. I know it is probably a good thing, but why not just use table, instead of redefining other elements to be tables?

brlewis on March 5, 2008 [–]

You aren't redefining other elements. You're styling other elements such that they're laid out as tabular data would be, without having to redefine them as tabular data.

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