View source on this page: http://www.allapis.com/The-Golden-Grid/golden7.html

... and tell me what I could possibly be gaining from this system. They've defined a table, with some code that doesn't really look like a table, and they've had to hand-split the text for that specific page so that it would fit into the cells.

I honestly can't tell what part of this is supposed to be an improvement over anything we have already. I had assumed that they had found a way to make content flow into multi-column layouts, but they haven't. They've just discovered {clear:none;float:left;}.

Or am I missing something?

Practically none of the grid systems accommodates the most common ad widths (120, 160, 180, 300)px well (https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_US/AdFormats.html). I use malo (http://code.google.com/p/malo/), incidentally by the same author as this post's framework.

It's simple enough to grasp in a few seconds and it allows me to use a grid that fits well enough around most ads. It's also so small that cross-browser breakage is easy to detect.

Is this a parody site? Surely... This can't be for real.

I've looked at many CSS grid frameworks and first thing to mind is always "looks like a printed magazine".

I suspect that is why certain designers are attracted to them. But is also why I click away wondering "why would anyone ever do that?"

Interesting comments. Thank you all for commenting. @Axed: I worked long and hard for The Grid System. Parody site? I don't get it!? @njharman:Good observation. It does look like print magazine :) @all: This is not tabele v.s css article or project. CSS is just the tool. It is about web grids, dimension, geometry and my personal quest to better web layout.

Has anyone tallied up how many of those grid systems there are out there at the moment?

Also, do any of these systems work for email?

GPL License? No thanks. Stick with YUI which is the same but more flexible, BSD licensed and far better documented (although admittedly, higher weight).

looks interesting. goodie but first i need to read the documentation :)

Why is this up rated? Why not just use tables and get the job done instead of "hacking" tables in CSS sigh