Scott Mitchell has a new article on 4guys about using the ASP.NET CSS Friendly Control Adapters. Using them causes standard ASP.NET controls to basically use fewer tables for layout, and instead use more lists, divs, and “proper” tags for layout & markup. The adapters also cut down on in-line styles, allowing you to keep layout in a CSS file where it belongs.

And all that means better accessibility, cleaner code, and fewer laughs of derision from your Mac-toting designer friends who say things like “Yuck, Microsoft .NET is le glos poulet laid, look at all those tables!” and then they refer you to their hipster CSS blogs. Well, look who’s laughing now!