Why the tables?

[Alex Clarke]

I know that Zen Cart is XHTML 1.0 compliant and has a "nearly table-less layout", but why are tables used?

Is it for cross-browser compatability, ease of use, or another reason?

As always, I'm curious!

[yellow1912]

Table can be good in some cases, especially for cross-browsers compatibility. As long as you don't use too many tables and too many nested tables then all is fine. Customers won't even care about that anyway.

[Kim]

This question has been asked over and over - There is 1 layout table in tpl_main_page. It was used because there was not a stable, easy to use and modify three column CSS layout that worked in all major browsers.

All the other table used in the Catalog (the Admin is NOT in cluded in xhtml validation) are used for tabular data.

In v1.4 - the layout table in tpl_main_page is gone and the listings pages that use a tabular format will have the option of a pure CSS grid layout.

[Alex Clarke]

This question has been asked over and over - There is 1 layout table in tpl_main_page. It was used because there was not a stable, easy to use and modify three column CSS layout that worked in all major browsers.

All the other table used in the Catalog (the Admin is NOT in cluded in xhtml validation) are used for tabular data.

In v1.4 - the layout table in tpl_main_page is gone and the listings pages that use a tabular format will have the option of a pure CSS grid layout.

Thanks for the information Kim.

I did try searching the forums for an answer, but came up with nothing. No doubt I was using the wrong search terms!