Fwd: [#293] Summary for tables

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> 
> > 1. This will make people think that layout with tables is good, because 
> > XHTML allows the value 'table'.
> 
> Are tables (used for layout) really that bad...? I really see
> Accessibility
> problems, but these would be removed introducing the type attribute. --
> Maybe
> XHTML 2 will us enable a 'new beginning' (e.g. not needing layout tables
> anymore) and everything gets better, but maybe (and IMO likely) it is
> necessary
> to use them later, too, and an optional type attribute (for emergency
> cases,
> if you want) offers an alternative.
> 
> > 2. Is this a proposal for XHTML 2.0? When do you think XHTML 2.0 will be
> 
> > implemented? Do you think browsers not capable of rendering a CSS (CSS 
> > 2.0 rec is from 1998!) based layout will implement the table type 
> > attribute earlier?
> 
> In general, it would be useful -->now. And I think it's not important when
> anything is implemented properly by e.g. browser vendors, since it is
> characteristic for the IT landscape that there are many recommendations,
> specifications etc. you first have to wait until you can really and
> properly use them
> (see the Java 1.4 introduction, or the buggy CSS 2 support, take what you
> want
> -- often you have to pass on possible features for maybe weeks, maybe
> years).
> 
> -- Last but not least, my proposal was rather an idea how the problem
> could
> have been solved quite earlier than to start a discussion about who, where
> and when. And I can live without it.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
>  Jens.
> 
> 
> 
> > Jens Meiert wrote:
> > >>Using "class" may not be perfect but it will be used very infrequently
> > (I
> > >>guess) and defining this CSS class should not cause much hindrance to
> > the
> > >>author.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The idea sounds great, but I rather suggest a 'type' attribute for
> > tables
> > > (which really expresses the way it is used), like
> > > 
> > >    <table type="layout" />
> > > 
> > > thus implying e.g. an optional 'data' value.
> > 
> > 1. This will make people think that layout with tables is good, because 
> > XHTML allows the value 'table'.
> > 2. Is this a proposal for XHTML 2.0? When do you think XHTML 2.0 will be
> 
> > implemented? Do you think browsers not capable of rendering a CSS (CSS 
> > 2.0 rec is from 1998!) based layout will implement the table type 
> > attribute earlier?
> > -- 
> > Johannes Koch
> > In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
> >                              (Te Deum, 4th cent.)
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jens Meiert
> 
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> 
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> 


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