Table shame eliminator

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by kirubakaran • 18 years ago

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Hexstream2• 18 years ago

A circumvoluted way of reinventing an obsolete approach.

I find no value in this "feel good" proposition...

kirubakaran• 18 years ago

It is a tongue in cheek "code" subtly advocating the use of table where appropriate.

irrelative• 18 years ago

That's the goal -- glad you got it :-)

We hope to add several additional absurd coding solutions in the future -- already have a couple in the works.

tokipin• 18 years ago

rofl. nice pictures lol

cstejerean• 18 years ago

If you have a bunch of full time designers on staff let them toy with CSS all day long to get the right layout. Otherwise take the PG approach and treat HTML as object code.

juanpablo• 18 years ago

That already exists, on any element

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#q2

the problem, as always, is Internet Explorer.

ibsulon• 18 years ago

And, as I mentioned in the blog post, how does that work for screen readers and other enabling technologies for the disabled?

zach• 18 years ago

A lot better than using Flex, I'm going to guess.

Okay, seriously, here's my question to startup website developers. Is it wise for us to spend significant time trying to avoid using tables in our often-changing layouts, in the hope that a blind user may have a slightly less confusing experience? I'm not quite going to say YAGNI, but I will say I'm not convinced.

If you're serious about accessibility, good for you -- use VoiceOver or JAWS, truly check your site out. It's a lot more laudable a goal than having your HTML perfectly pass some XHTML validator. Otherwise, I think it's one of those things we can sensibly put on hold until after our B rounds.

olavk• 18 years ago

A better (serious) solution would be to transform the layout based on the user agent. For IE generate tables, for any other UA generate divs with the appropriate CSS using display:table. Everyone is happy!

Zak• 18 years ago

So... to avoid using tables, reinvent all the table-related tags as classes? I haven't had my caffeine yet. Is this a joke?

Plus, you have to use "float," which if you think about it means you're really just pushing the dirt under the CSS rug.

Isn't that what CSS is all about?

imsteve• 18 years ago

Do that in javascript and I'll start using it:)

Table shame eliminator

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