Question about Column Layout Grid

[anafor]

Why does the Column Layout Grid for Product Listing uses "DIV" tag to measure products? Why did not drbyte (there's his name in the header of tpl_columnar_display.php) use the "TABLE" for this purpose?
Is "div" just a preferred tag, or there are some logical reasons to use it?

This question appeared with issue to add some free space between products on products listing page after installing "product listing pages with column layout grid" contribution using "margin" or "padding" in CSS. I thought, it could be easily done if there was a table instead of div.
The other issue was to make border on every product "box". Every div tag has it's own height, so it's possible to just add "border" in CSS for it.

[dml311071]

Hi

I don't presume to know the opinon of drbyte, he is a well respected and experienced member of the development team, but I would always use <div> tags wherever possible because:
1) tables are slower to render - you can often (especially on Dreamweaver template sites) see the page being built and aligning!
2) tables are unneccesarily difficult to style using a stylesheet when a div id and class are just so much more efficient
3) The move away fom tables wherever possible appears to be an ideolgy underpinning the Zen cart Project (and is one that I personally applaud.)

I know why some would prefer to use tables, and Zencart still uses them for certian aspects of the layout, because of browser issues. But we should not let a badly implemented browser like IE6(66) dictate our coding styles.

all the best

David