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Top 30 popular websites that still are using tables as main layout structure
Sunday, December 2, 2007
As we move in a world of XHTML, CSS, AJAX, Microformats, Semantic Web, etc. You may think that tables are only used to display… well… tabular data, no you are wrong! Take a look at this list of top sites from Alexa and see who are still in the middle age of web design. Here I am looking only at the home page of every site, may be worst when you click your way inside the site.
Tables are bad? Since when?
Well I am not going to tell the “The History of Tobacco”, you can read some over here. But I want to bring a few things for you: light, understandable, accessible and quasi-more SEO friendly code.
The list
Tables are bad? Since when?
Well I am not going to tell the “The History of Tobacco”, you can read some over here. But I want to bring a few things for you: light, understandable, accessible and quasi-more SEO friendly code.
The list
- Yahoo.com - Clean
- Google.com - Tables inside
- YouTube.com - You don´t believe how many they have
- Live.com - Only one… Hmm… not bad at all
- MSN.com - Only one… Amazing!
- MySpace.com - A place for tables… and friends?
- FaceBook.com - Here hang out the tables too.
- Wikipedia.com - Tables, tables, tablepedia over here
- Hi5.com - Only two
- Orkut.com - OK, you too
- RapidShare.com - One
- Blogger.com - None, Zero, Niente, No tables around
- MegaUpload.com - What you think?, yes you are right, there are countless tables inside
- aidu.com - Two on the home page, one table every 20 visible characters
- Friendster.com - Not as much as you think
- Yahoo.jp - Okay here we come again, back to 1995, Y! on the basics
- Microsoft.com - None, can you believed?
- QQ.com - table is their second CSS declaration, after body of course
- Fotolog.com - Yes this one too
- Ebay.com - Everybody knows
- Google.fr - Tableu à´la carte.
- Mail.ru - Yes in the old Russia, the websites layout the tables
- Google.com.br - Ou Brasil tableleirou (here too)
- Skyrock.com - None, Nicht, Null, 0 tables here
- Sina.com.cn - Hele ale table too
- Google.de - Of course, they have too
- Google.cl - * (for now on I will write only an “*” when Google comes)
- Google.co.uk - *
- Google.es - *
- Flickr.com - You don´t noticed but they are, they are
Finally
From the 30 more popular sites on the world and only 4 are using tableless layouts. Who cares anyway, the users? Nah! XHT hu ha hu who? a user have just said near you.
Stop hunting those IE CSS tricks and bring back your Frontpage 98 my friend designer, we are still in web 0.8889… not really but… think about it.
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