Suddenly many web designers started discouraging using of tables in layout. It was just like discarding floppy drives from desktop computers and today when we buy a PC, it does not come with floppy drive as standard. However things have gone advance and today there is absolutely no use of floppy drive but think of a case when operating system becomes corrupt, you cannot boot and you mess up with BIOS too. This is definitely a nightmare but floppy can be used to boot in this situation and BIOS can be flashed using floppy. Ok I am not going to talk about this issue as I am not aware of latest hardware BIOS flashing method but I am writing about the importance of tables.

You might have received newsletter in emails and these emails look just like a complete webpage. If you look at the source code of these newsletter, these are created using tables. Email services and even personal email client software’s are not able to render complex CSS files so we have to rely on good old tables method. Its pity that same web designers making newsletter for their client using tables shout that don’t support using tables anymore. In real web pages too there are places where using tables is more efficient so days of tables in layout is definitely no over!

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