Re: calculator uses tables for layout, a highly inaccessible way of presenting an interface from Anne van Kesteren on 2005-03-14 (www-forms@w3.org from March 2005)

From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:24:42 +0100
To: achuter@teleservicios.es
CC: www-forms@w3.org
Message-ID: <4235585A.5060803@annevankesteren.nl>

Alan Chuter wrote:
> I don't think this is an XForms problem, rather a page layout problem. 
> And  it's not necessarily inaccessible if it's done correctly, and 
> certainly  not "highly inaccessible". A question especially relevant to 
> designing  forms pages is why doesn't CSS support a grid layout.

CSS does have something similar to a grid layout:

  <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html>

... the problem is that IE, in which XForms apparently has to be 
supported albeit not a backwards compatible specification, this is not 
supported.

-- 
  Anne van Kesteren
  <http://annevankesteren.nl/>

Received on Monday, 14 March 2005 09:24:56 UTC