vBulletin tables in CSS?
 

Those of you who visit Sitepoint know there are many articles, as well a book (or two) on explaining why using CSS to accommodate for what tables do is far more efficient than going the old style.

This is quoted from a recent article by Dan Shafer, about the stuff:
I haven't finished reading the entire article up yet (http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1167/1), and I'm not sure what to think whether performance is impeded that much.. but CSS is looking to grow to be the dominant standard to replace HTML tables.

Does vBulletin have any plans in replacing their tables with CSS?

CSS has virtually nothing that can universally replace tables, although vB3 is heavily reliant on CSS for most everything else it can do.

Yep i've joined the CSS revolution but after trying to code a layout in entirely css replacing tables with <div> tags i only managed to get it to display right in IE (which tells you a lot ;))

I just use the power of css to ditch attributes to the tags im using and occasionally to control the position of the whole layout on the page :)

- miSt

i only managed to get it to display right in IE

Heh, that's my experience with about 90% of CSS stuff. For that matter, CSS support seems to vary among the various browsers just as badly as traditional HTML.

The thing about tables and long load times isn't such an issue in the days of broadband. There are a couple of things you can do to speed 'em up, though, and to spare your dial-up users the worst of the delays. Best tip is to be sure to set height and width attributes for any image that's displayed in a table. That way, the browser will render the table as soon as it knows the dimensions (ie after the HTML has loaded but before it gets the image file).

I dunno... as a webmaster, I'd rather answer questions about slow load times than mucked-up CSS rendering in obscure browsers. ;)