Off Topic: Why I put up with Fusion's tables

[Andrew Ayres]

Sean, John and all,


When you have a large, commercial site that has frequent changes and

additions, that need to be done extremely rapidly, then coding by hand

isn't an option, even though it's an excellent way to produce perfect code.

Fusion3, which I've only just received a copy of, also let's you hand-edit

HTML and leaves it unaltered, supports DHTML, and has a host of other

excellent features. This isn't a plug for Fusion3, nor a dishing of

Dreamweaver, as I don't know it, but a defence of why I have put up with

Fusion's tabling (something which won't exist anymore if you publish CSS

layouts from Fusion3). I have found that the disadvantage of

overcomplicated tables, resulting in a couple more Kb at most, is easily

outweighed by the advantage of a rapid, easy production environment.


Roll on "positioning by co-ordinates". I hate the use of tables for layouts

anyway.


Andrew


At 11:30 AM 5/26/98 -0400, Sean wrote:

>Precisely why I code my HTML by hand.  What I don't do by hand, I do in

>Macromedia DreamWeaver, (pardon the plug for M DW) by far the best wysiwyg

>html editor on the market, with full support for DHTML; it even leaves HTML

>coding the way it found it (roundtrip HTML).


John Croteau:

>>   Re: http://www.aandl.com/info/html/test-homepage.html

>>Another problem is the overcomplicated Table created by NetObjects

>>Fusion. 


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