Common Design Flaws & How To Avoid Them

» olfoo - Complex HTML tables

Hello Christopher

It would help if you could highlight the 'why' and link to both good and bad examples of table coding that works well or bogs down.

-- posted by olfoo

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» chriscummings - Bad Tables - Examples

Hey olfoo --

View the source on yahoo.com: There are a lot of table structures in the HTML, but the page loads quickly and weighs in at a mere 14k.

Contrast this against zdnet.com which is loaded with nested tables (tables inside tables) and other junk -- so the page loads slowly and weighs in around 69k.

That's a big difference. And Ziff-Davis should know better.

-Chris

-- posted by chriscummings

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