Rudolf,
Did you test that on all common browsers?
IE{5,6,7}, Firefox {1,1.5,2.0}, Safari {1.3,2.0,3.0}, Opera {8,9} just to name a few 
It can go on but the deal is getting every browser to display it right
Do you know how few people even use IE5 anymore? My goodness, everyone should just forget about it. It's dead. Less than 1/2 of 1% of visitors to my websites use IE5.5 or under.
IE5 is ancient, buggy, and a huge security risk. There are plenty of alternatives out there. There is no excuse for anyone using IE5 and even less of an excuse for supporting it these days.
If people refuse to upgrade to something from this century, it is their problem. Further, I can't see how anyone could argue, if anyone would attempt to, that moving to Divs/CSS is not a good idea because a small minority of people are using ancient browsers.
In a one days work you could easily do a template that works 90% the same in all the browsers. That's a pretty good match.
Now count the templates that are in the default theme. 56 templates, but most of them are very similar.
This thing is really old, it's been years that people say to move towards semantic layout.
See, there is no way I could customize the default SMF theme to Divs/CSS in an hour. I'm not very familiar with the code or the myriad of places where it is buried.
Now, if you can do it in such a short period of time, how come the developers of SMF can't? Again, we've established that there is no good reason to rely on tables anymore in this current era.
So why such stubbornness to move away from tables for layout? I just do not understand it.
Seriously, if one was familiar with the SMF templating system, such as a developer, it would not be hard to do away with the majority of the tables for layout.
People have been raising this issue for
years now. That is why I was so blown away when I looked at the HTML for the SMF2.0 forum and saw it was a tabled layout.
At the rate SMF changes, if SMF2.0 uses a tabled layout, I wouldn't expect a tableless layout until 2009 or 2010 at the earliest.
I take it as a flaw too.
Yup. I don't know how SMF can compete when it is relying on ancient tables for layout when phpBB is moving away from them.
Have you seen the new phpBB3 theme? Nice! Man, if SMF could do something like that, it would be great.
Anyone who knows anything about web design will tell you this:
do not use tables for layout.Hopefully the SMF developers who donate their time and skill into making the forum will take heed and make SMF even better by moving to a tableless layout.
