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Saving Bandwidth With Standards-Compliant Code

Posted by timothy on from the look-feel-do dept.

RadioheadKid writes "DevEdge has an interview with ESPN associate art director Mike Davidson. In the interview Davison talks about the decision to switch to a standards-based, non-table layout. The interview touches on the process he went through to make that decision and the rewards in both bandwidth savings and browser compatibility. An interesting read for those who have not switched to a standards-based, non-table layout. (hint, hint)"

2 of 76 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Standards by qengho · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since when are tables not standards-compliant?

    They are, for tabular data. Using them simply for positioning is frowned upon. Having said that, CSS makes it difficult to do some things that tables can do easily (columnar layout), which is why many people still use very simple tables for basic layout, without going to the extremes of spacer gifs, multiply-nested tables, etc.

  2. Re:Standards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They are standards-compliant, but table-based *layout* very often isn't, because it stems from a certain attitude towards the web which doesn't encourage standard compliance.