- From: Alastair Campbell <ac@nomensa.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:12:52 +0100
- To: lois@lois.co.uk
- CC: WAI list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Lois Wakeman wrote: > I have a radical solution (flame throwers ready guys?). Why not propose a new element for XHTML n.n, called grid? Any new element for XHTML (even a module) would take a great deal of time to become a recommendation, and *then* to be supported by browsers. It would be quicker, easier and better for the current standards supported by browsers (or rather, the majority browser) and tools, which would solve the main problems. Plonking content into a well known and tested CSS layout (in, for example dreamweaver) shouldn't be any harder than using tables. The main difference at the moment is browser and tool support. I'm really not sure why grid layout comes into this? Defining a grid is rarely a problem with either, it's making curves that's tricky! It took a few years for tables to be handled well by the tools, IMHO the best course is allow/help the tools to catch up with the CSS methods. The worst case is that CSS supports table like layout, which is already happening: http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/equal_height_ii/ (View in a standards based browser) -Alastair -- Alastair Campbell | Director of Technology 0117 929 7333 | ac@nomensa.com Please refer to the following disclaimer for this message: http://www.nomensa.com/email/disclaimer.html
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