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From: _mallory
Date: Jul 23, 2015 8:37AM

While I'm unsure of which circumstances Jonathan's talking about, I
have seen developers avoid using tables for tables purely because of
mobile-suckage (that the best one can do with large tables is scroll
them).

_mallory

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:46:33PM +0000, Moore,Michael (HHSC) wrote:
> Wouldn't you consider it to be a fundamental semantic flaw to implement a grid with divs rather than a table or am I missing something. I see this implementation all of the time. I understand using generic markup (spans and divs) to create constructs that do not map well to existing html elements but for a grid a table provides the proper semantic structure. - Unless you are referring to a layout grid used to organize sections of a page. Perhaps the problem is that developers are using the frameworks layout grid construct where they should be dropping a table into a div within the grid.
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