Re: CSS vs tables for layout from Lynn Alford on 2005-09-20 (www-style@w3.org from September 2005)

From: Lynn Alford <lynn.alford@jcu.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:12:55 +1000
To: <www-style@w3.org>
Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20050921091039.041f9ce0@mail.jcu.edu.au>

At 10:36 AM 20/09/2005 -0500, Joseph McBride wrote:

>Hi all,
>As part of a capstone experience for my degree, I was planning on doing
>some formal research on the tables vs. CSS for layout debate.  Does
>anyone have any suggested reading on this topic?  I'm hoping for
>materials (books, papers, journals) that have formally addressed the
>topic especially as it relates to implementation costs, CMS, long term

You may want to look at Web Accessibility Guidelines 
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php for some information about how HTML 
table layouts can be harmful in accessibility terms.

Lynn

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