I’ve heard from sources which shall remain nameless that tables are coming back. I hope not. I hate coding them and quite frankly - I suck at it because I started learning HTML after CSS had made its debut. In my opinion, CSS has much more power and its easier to code. Some of you may remember a few months ago I mentioned I wrote a paper about the fall of tables for a class at BCIT. Well, I still haven’t received any feedback on this paper but I still wanted to put it out there for people to read and either tear me apart or praise me for.

You can read this paper by downloading this small PDF or viewing the Articles page.

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it here before but all of my classmates/colleagues know that I’m not a huge fan of Dreamweaver. I’ll use it, but I much more prefer to open up good ol’ TextMate and hand code everything myself. I find that many times Dreamweaver’s preview view is quite off from the actual browsers (preview is NOT a substitute for real testing people!) and that if you use Dreamweaver’s layout templates the code can get very messy and hard to read. I also don’t like the way Dreamweaver handles it’s CSS or the way in which it manages it while working on a project. I personally find it much easier to open TextMate, start a new project, and drag all my files into the flyout. This way it makes all the files easily accessible with tabs at the top and your CSS is just another tab that is easily viewable in its entirety.

That is my rant today. Hope to see you all again soon and I accept ANY criticism (constructive or otherwise) on the Fall of Tables article.

Peace.

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