- From: Dylan Schiemann <dylans@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:31:46 -0700
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Fred P. wrote: >>> Table have been used since years to layout text, >>> why shall that change? > > >> Because it's been shown to be extremely inefficient, and has particular >> accessibility issues, making it inappropriate for web use. > > > Inappropriate for web use let me laught. > Tell me a single non-trivial non-stupid non-completely-flash > web page where <table> are not used anywhere for transparent text layout. The new ESPN web site ( interview at http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/espn-interview/01/ ) Wired News (interview at http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/wired-interview/ ) Cingular Wireless Fast Company zeldman.com etc. That's more than one. These are all sites that use a grid layout, but don't have to use tables to achieve this. With proper support of css2 & 3, the need for tables to layout a page is significantly reduced. Ideally tables are only to be used for tabular data, i.e. information with a 2-dimensional correlation, though there are still some designs that are not possible without tables given current css support in major browsers. (3 column, one column with full image vertical coverage matching variable page height, with a horiziontal gradient, for example, css3 background properties such as background-size will resolve cases like this). -- Dylan Schiemann http://www.dylanschiemann.com/
Received on Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:07:39 UTC