CSS
At EIT I was detailed to research Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), produce a white paper for the intranet and generally learn all I could about implementing them.
As I found out more, I began to see the power of style and the scope for moving away from using <tables> for layout.
You are looking at one now.
View source and you'll see. Or rather you won't - see tables that is.
The web being the web however, there are currently various problems with ditching tables due to lack of browser support but there are workarounds and rules to follow that make fast rendering pages, devoid of tables a possibility.
For instance, the CSS that makes the structure of these pages has a little dodge to get around the problem of different browser implementations of the element "box" model. So this site should look pretty darn near the same on a Mac or a PC, in Netscape or IE. But take a look at the site in an old browser and it's nasty. You can still see the content but it's a mess. A conscious decision that not many commercial enterprises can take yet.
