Less-Table-Less

Less-Table-Less

"StopDesign did on a remake of the Microsoft website from a tablebased site to a tableless layout. That remake showed a 62% file size reduction of the site, and using their average hits per month for the Microsoft site, calculated that Microsoft would be saving 924 GIGS in bandwidth per day, and 329 Terabytes of bandwidth per year. For any company that pays for bandwidth, these things are important."

Interesting isn't it ? It's a very interesting statistics blogged by webtrend evangelist Nicole Hernandez in her blog on Creating Tableless Sites Why and Some Basics. She continues to elaborate logical factors which drives one to opt for a tableless layout :

• Forces You To Write Well-Formed Code
  
• Faster Loading Time
  
• Easier to Read Code
  
• Print Alternate Views
  
• Search Engine Optimization
  
• Presentation Flexibility
  
• Selling Yourself On Standards

Was reading a lot on tableless-datagrid-layout for client-side presentation in recent past. Layout design is quite easy & workable compared to data-grid design in div based environment. I'm looking for a grid based content display technique for the current project I'm working on. I welcome your ideas, thoughts & techniques on designing div-based-grid layouts for dynamic data-grids display. I had a look through finetooth DataGrid, but it's not yet cross-browser compatible. I'm clearly looking at something which could run on 1.5 +above versions of FF.