RE: [MACCAWS] Webmonkey article: Web Standards for Hard Times

This brings up a point:

As it was said on diveintomark.org
(http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/08/05.html#rounded_corners)
regarding the css box-corners template that was whipped up
(http://www.albin.net/CSS/roundedCorners/) and mentioned on css-d/etc.

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But I count three CSS hacks, two levels of nested divs, one markup hack,
and a partridge in a pear tree to get it all working. Apparently we've
traded a big stinking pile of table tricks for a big stinking pile of
CSS tricks. It's not more semantically pure, it's not more accessible,
it's not easier to maintain. Why is this progress?
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He has a very good point here. What I'm asking is: Should we be pushing
workarounds/hacks to work WITH the older browsers, or settle with
(possibly) less visually appealing & precise layouts which ARE cleanly
laid out but still remain W3C compliant.

Thoughts? Am I even making sense? ;)

Ryan