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On 14 November 2012 08:32, frank <frank at orchidbox.com> wrote:

> please unsubscribe me! i have unsubscribed a while back and yesterday i
> started getting these emails again!!
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> Regards
> Frank
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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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