Lockergnome reverts
I decided to hold off commenting on the news that Lockergnome were dropping their CSS layout in favour of a table based alternative until I had seen the new design for myself. I figured that they were probably just going to move to a transitional tables/CSS combination design with tables used to bypass some of the more taxing cross-browser issues. I think the following code snippet from their new front page speaks for itself:
<p> </p> <p> </p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="778" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr><td align="left"> <div id="footer"> <blockquote>© 1996-2004, Lockergnome LLC. ISSN: 1095-3965. All Rights Reserved. Please read our <a href="/about/privacy-policy.phtml"> Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="/about/terms-of-service.phtml"> Terms of Service</a>. Web site hosted by <a href="http://www.webair.com/cgi-bin/in?51">Webair</a>. Email newsletters powered by <a href="http://www.whatcounts.com/">WhatCounts</a>. Domain registered at <a href="https://www.gnomedomains.com/">GnomeDOMAINS</a>. </blockquote> </div> </td></tr></table>
A blockquote for indentation, inside a table that exists purely to apply a width, following on from two empty paragraphs for added vertical space? It’s like CSS margin properties never happened. Welcome back to 1996.
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