- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 11:30:07 -0400
- To: Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@hem.passagen.se>
- CC: site-comments@w3.org
Bertilo Wennergren wrote: > > Hi! > > The new design looks nice. > > But I'm surprised that XHTML Transitional is being used. > I would have supposed that W3C would go for XHTML Strict. > > The design uses a layout table. I thought that was considered > bad style. Is this really tabular data? Hi Bertilo, We tried very hard to use CSS floats instead of a table, but the behavior across browsers was inconsistent and in some cases made the content inaccessible. Had the results been different across browsers but acceptable, we probably would have gone with floats. You are right, the data isn't tabular and we're using a table for layout. However, we made sure that the results made sense when "linearized" (e.g., when used with Lynx). > If the window is made less wide than the logo plus the menu column, > the menu disappears from view. That could have been prevented by > placing the logo by itself at the top. Actually this kind of > "problem" is seen a lot these days on many pages. One single image > limits the possibilities of resizing the window. In your case it's > not nearly as bad as in some other cases... We tried that design as well, then changed it to the current form in order to save a little space. Thank you for your input! - Ian -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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