- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:55:50 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Olivier GENDRIN wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Olivier GENDRIN wrote: > >> > >> Looking at r2866 [1], I note the sentence "primarily using CSS > >> positioning and CSS tables." I think that it would be less confusing to > >> talk about CSS display instead of CSS tables (and more accurate from a > >> CSS spec point of view [2][3]). > >> > >> [1] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=2865&to=2866 > >> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#display-prop > >> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#positioning-scheme > > > > I don't understand why "CSS tables" is confusing, nor why it's inaccurate. > > Could you elaborate? > > It's inaccurate because many noob web designers ignore the others ways > of display content, beyond tables. Assuming you mean "beyond CSS tables", I don't think that's accurate at all. Few authors of any kind, "noob" or not, use CSS tables today. > And because you are talking about "a variety of alternatives to using > HTML tables for layout" without telling about floats (widely used, > mostly because of the lack of support of display: table-cell). Using floats for this kind of layout is actually frowned upon by the CSS working group, so I don't think we want to encourage this. > I propose the sentence "<p class="note">There are a variety of > alternatives to using HTML tables for layout, through CSS: <a > href="">positioning</a>, <a href="">floating</a> or <a > href="">display</a> mode (like display: table, display: table-row, > display: table-cell, but also inline-block, or run-in, compact).</p>". > > I hope I'm clear enough... I don't think that inline-block, run-in, or compact are suitable alternatives to HTML tables abused for layout, and I don't think we want to encourage floats. The result is the current paragraph. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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