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On 13 Nov 2012, at 12:56, Miko Coffey <miko.coffey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rod,
> 
> First and foremost, HTML tables are a nightmare for accessibility. And what's good for accessibility is usually good for SEO as well, since crawlers behave in many ways like text-based browser tools.
> 
> A good article covering the reasons why:
> http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/08/from-table-hell-to-div-hell/
> 
> Tables are great for tabular content, it's just that they were bastardised and used in a way they were never meant for by designers (like me) way back in the day before Google existed. Ah the Netscape years, how simple life was back then...
> 
> Enjoy the above article - think it does a better job of explaining than a nostalgic old web geek does ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Miko
> 
> 
> On 12 November 2012 14:02, Rod Harris <rod at knowbase.co.za> wrote:
>> Hi all. Happy Mondays. Can someone tell me if it’s true that it's better for SEO not to use html tables?
>> 
>> In fact. Why are tables in HTML code frowned upon? I’ve not seen good support for this prejudice. They don’t seem to be problematic in mobile browsers. The usual answer is that content needs to be separated from layout. But why is using a div or a span good separation of content from layout and a table not? Good layout with only divs requires a lot of nested divs. So why Is a table less maintainable?. It’s unlikely that a new version of a web site will only need a new CSS file. In fact I think less people will understand what is going on someone else’s CSS rather than in their simple table layout. I’d be interested in good reasons for the use if divs + CSS instead of tables.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Rodders.
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