I kind of agree with midimagic even though I don't want to. Tables were meant to display content: div's were designed to control layout. 2 separate things but not mutually exclusive. Firstly, I'm sick of hearing that 'change is good'. Who decided that while I slept? Consistency is good, having the time to get really good at something is good, being balanced and feeling secure is good.
Having said that, we are all remember right at the forefront of the internet. It really hasn't been around that long, (The popular interweb I'm talking about) therefore there's bound to be change to some degree until it's decided just what it is. Who says WC3 is correct and MS aren't?
Anyway does it all really matter?
I have created some sites in basic HTML, I've done some in ASP, I've laid them out in tables and CSS, div's and CSS, tables and html and used includes where appropriate and whatever else way I saw fit for each site.
They're all tools to use and I use whichever one of them gets the job done in the same way I sometimes belt something with my heavy pliers, because I can't be bothered to go get the hammer. If the result is how I want it who cares how I achieved it?
If you're going to have standards, then everyone must adhere to them, including those arrogant browser writers. Otherwise, I'll do the best job I can …
Webman's post is clearly quite desperate, and lacking some fundamental knowledge. Also, he does not give anywhere near enough information to enable anyone to help him.
Trudge is clearly impatient with these kind of people, and brusquely points out some of the errors.
I understand webman: he may have spent days non-stop trying to work out a problem, and his question is less of a question, and more of a desperate shot in the dark hoping someone can fish him from the technological mire he finds himself in. It's kind of a literary "Arrrrgghhh!!" rather than a specific question. He wants handholding until he can get some basic idea of what he's doing. My advice would be that he's taken on more than he can chew, and should google some reference sites to learn the very basics first. Impatience to 'get on with it' prevents people from doing that, but it is by far the best suggestion.
Trudge spends who knows how many hours answering difficult questions in a difficult scenario: not being there to 'see' the problem. He does this freely and to help people and must get incredibly frustrated sometimes at people's lack of knowledge, and their lack of preparedness to seek basic information which will help both themselves and him. However, he chooses to do this of his own volition, therefore when faced with people who are desperate and clearly lacking in knowledge he perhaps could show restraint and point out that …
Hi, we have an access database, and we want to 'push a buttton' and have it synchronise itself with acopy of the database on a web server. Does anyone know how to achieve this?
