Re: Why can't I make a table cell any size I want?

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From: Bill (nfr_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:09:51 -0700

Thanks for the recommendations.

I must say that I am dissapointed to hear that the VS designer is not up to
speed and that I will have to handcode the HTML. It's not that I am against
doing this, but it does strike me that needing to is really the equivilent
of handcoding a Word document in Notepad... complete with tags and
stylesheets. Or writing applications in assembler rather than a higher level
language.

I'm wondering why Microsoft (or SOMEONE) can't put together a decent visual
designer for Visual Studio.

"Colin Young" <x@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:Oyl4jrpaEHA.1152@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Yes. Visual Studio does support two design modes, and to be honest,
neither
> is really a good example of good HTML or CSS, although the grid mode is
> probably the more offensive of the two. All it means is that you will need
> to get your hands dirty with the HTML rather than relying on VS to do the
> layout for you. You could use tables, but based on what you are trying to
do
> it sounds like doing it the right way is the easier option (just in case
> doing it right isn't incentive enough on its own). Unfortunately VS seems
to
> have inherited the HTML WYSIWYG designer from FrontPage and it quite
> frequently does things that are not only very messy, but actually in
> violation of the standards.
>
> For a fine example of layout without tables, see http://glish.com/css/.
> There are links there to other sites that have much more information about
> how to effectively use CSS.
>
> Using tables for layout is so 1997...
>
> Colin

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