- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:22:09 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Christian Wolfgang Hujer <Christian.Hujer@itcqis.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 10:51, Ian Hickson wrote: | Vadim Plessky wrote: | > And it was clearly indicated by several posters that Tables are not | > suitable for achieving this (and Tables should be used for Table | > information, not for Layouting) | | Tables in HTML should be used for tabular data and have nothing to do | with layout. | | Tables in CSS should be used for layout and have nothing to do with | tabular data. Well, there is no warranty that Tables will be supported in future versions of CSS. So far, Tables is part of CSS3 Tables module - and this module is optional. You can develop CSS-compliant browser whcih doesn't support tables at all. Therefor, Tables in CSS *should not* be used for layout. special 'display' properties were added to CSS in order to be able to render tabular data for pure XML (not XHTML!) Some people assumed that 'table-cell', 'table-row', etc. should be used for HTML and XHTML as well. To my best understandimng, this is wrong. Tables in CSS should be used only with XML! as about enhancing CSS specs: I think Tantek Celik proposed very good solution some time ago. We should create CSS 2.1, take some important parts from CSS3 and add it to CSS 2.1. So far, I don't see other solution which will make spec available for Web Designers in nearest future. Still CSS3 lack possibility to make vertical centering. Hope this can be fixed - good proposal how to do it were discussed on this list few months ago... | | The only reason that CSS Tables are not suitable for centering is that | the actual CSS used is too complicated: | | http://www.damowmow.com/mozilla/demos/centering/ again tables... We should get rid of them - tables are for represnting Tabular data, not for layouting! -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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