The next version of Joomla has hit RC2, and it’s still addicted to tables for design. How long will it be before they stop pretending they know what the end design is going to need, and just pass the content out to the view and let the view logic do what it’s supposed to do?

OK, I can understand retaining them for the time being in the component piece. While it’s extremely possible to do what they’re trying to do in there without the tables, it requires just a little effort, so if they don’t want to go to that effort and tag the 2-col items with different classes than the full-width items, I guess I can cut them some slack.

But Newsflash and Polls? Come on! A poll isn’t a table, it’s a list of choices! And a newsflash is simply a few paragraphs of text! Why do they want to keep inflicting tables on us there? It’d actually take less effort on their part to deliver those modules properly.

I’ve been waiting so long for this upgrade, and what I’m seeing is extremely disappointing.