- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:20:26 -0700
- To: Afternoon <afternoon@uk2.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 07:43 AM, Afternoon wrote: > I know my attitude was surly, but I still think this is a 100% table > is the most (only?) reliable and flexible way to construct page with a > centered item and I have seen no activities within the group that > attempt to provide a better technique. By the way, this isn't necessarily invalid HTML. The W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines allow for the use of tables for layout, as long as (a) the page makes sense when the table is linearized, (b) the markup is correct -- summary="", no axis/ scope/headers/<th>, and (c) the document type is Transitional (required so you can use all the layout-friendly attributes, not because layout tables _must_ be Transitional -- they can be Strict too). Layout tables are _not_ improper HTML, and they are, by and large, _not_ an accessibility problem if done correctly -- the same applies to frames, by the way. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Author, CSS in 24 Hours http://cssin24hours.com Inland Anti-Empire Blog http://blog.kynn.com/iae Shock & Awe Blog http://blog.kynn.com/shock
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