On 20 May 2005, at 14:58, Neal Schilling wrote:
While I'll agree there are many aspects that make tables
appropriate, properly implemented, a DIV can be much more flexible.
The ultimate goal, as I see it, would be to eliminate most of the
templates and have the CSS generated by the application which turns
it into whatever columns, headings, or the like.
I'd stop using phpWebSite entirely if it generated the CSS from
inside the application and we didn't have templates. It'd be a
terrible resource hog generating CSS files or worse, inline CSS. IME,
developers often have no idea about design so leaving them to play
with the crayons is worse than if you let them create templates.
For items that are tabular, a table makes logical sense, but in my
experience, I've found that a table should be avoided in
formatting, whenever possible. The options they make available are
over shaddowed by the difficulty in changing the layout when that
becomes necessary.
Whilst I agree entirely with static content sites, I disagree
entirely with template driven dynamically generated sites. IME,
editing templates is much easier, more powerful and more consistent
than using CSS entirely.
There's a mix to be struck. I'd hate to see templates go and I'd hate
to see CSS being generated by PHP code. However, that's not to say
more CSS and less HTML shouldn't be used where possible.
I honestly doubt that IE7 will have a better complience to the
standards than IE6. That just doesn't follow Microsofts habits. The
only solution is to find a way to deal with the differences.
ok, but the most differences are in how IE handles CSS and the least
in it's (X)HTML compliance, so the best solution would be sticking
with (X)HTML.
Cue someone saying we should do it all in XML and use XSLT ;-)
Shaun
aegis design - http://www.aegisdesign.co.uk
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