- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:50:15 +0100
- To: Patti Burke-Lund <pburkelund@yahoo.com>
- CC: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Patti Burke-Lund wrote: > I had a question come in from > a student who took a course in Dreamweaver last semester where they were > given an Adobe Developer Connection tutorial > (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_website_pt2_04.html) > in creating a page layout with tables for text, graphics, and Flash > assets. Adobe Developer Center isn't a remotely good tracker of current practice, but for an alternative view from the Center, see: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/why_css.html (from 2004) > I was wondering if anyone could share their insight with regard to > layout tables and accessibility, as well as when the switch occurred > from layout tables to CSS (i.e., how many years this has been a > recommended practice). As long ago as 1997, the HTML 3.2 standard warned that using table markup "for layout purposes … typically causes problems when rending to speech or to text only user agents": http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#table There's an interesting chronology of the subject at: http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/articles/layout_tables/history.htm Note that the author is a defender of the use of tables for layout. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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