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1. giamaica
   

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   fellows, anyone out there can help me find out a tableless template ?
   thanks in advance !

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2. _ck_
   

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   Tables still have a valuable use.
   It's going to be very hard to emulate some of their abilities via pure CSS.

   I remember a tableless WordPress template
   but I haven't seen a table-less theme on the bbPress side yet.

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   Posted 3 years ago #
3. so1o
   

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   my site is has a table less theme
   http://www.adityanaik.com/forums/

   but the information shown in the forum is limited too..

   Posted 3 years ago #
4. Hexter
   

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   I knows this is a bit late but I like to share my knowledge of what I learned from University, tables are fine for tabular information and should only be used on tabular information, that web standard to you and that one thing the team of bbpress cares about. Hence the quote below

   bbPress is focused on web standards

   
   The quote comes from bbpress offical website on the frontpage.

   For example the frontpage of this forum is tabular information so therefore tables have been used, even the default bbpress theme uses tables on the frontpage. However the topic you're reading now does not use tables because the information is not exactly tabular, it's in content with the topic more like.

   So don't worry about "tableless template," as bbPress really does cares about web standard unlike IPB, VBulletin, phpBB, and some other bloated forum software, they just don't care about web standard at all, they use tables for everything. LOL

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5. _ck_
   

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   Your Uni has been been teaching you well.

   The problem with pure CSS solutions is they don't align complex elements very well and older browsers don't do CSS well at all. Vbulletin does get a bit carried away however, even things like the page numbers on a thread are rendered in a table. It's part of it's legacy however as it's been around for years.

   However I think CSS "purists" are snobs (as well as people who are html/xhtml validation crazy). If something is very difficult to do with CSS but easy with a table, I am not going to waste the hours on CSS since I know the table will work cross browser right away.

   Posted 3 years ago #

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