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Rob Beal: My contribution to the CSS debate. Table-less CSS designs are for people with time to experiment, not for busy people shipping product for a diverse user base. Ignoring the condescending tone, I agree with the sentiment. Any sort of retraining is difficult and time-consuming, and if you already know table-based design, switching to CSS-based design will be even more difficult than if you were starting from scratch, because you will have to unlearn significant amounts of what you think you know about HTML (specifically, you think it’s a visual markup language). In a business environment, this may not be the best use of your time (or money).

This is why weblogs are the perfect breeding ground for CSS. Here we’re working in our free time, free of all the usual commercial pressures, and we can afford to say things like screw Netscape 4 (and Omniweb). We can afford to draw a line in the sand, push the envelope a little, move the web forward. It’s time.

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