Thanks for the input, Robert...I'll check out your work. Rick
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 1:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Can CSS and Layers Take the Place of Tables for Displaying Dynamic Data? Keep in mind that you can apply CSS and layers in conjunction with tables. In the case of displaying dynamic data, whether you use a table or not depends on the kind of data being displayed. As an example, I've been playing with the design of a webmail client I built. You can get the current app from my blog if you want to see what I've done: http://www.funkymojo.com/blog/ The design really only works in FF at the moment, I haven't tweaked it to support IE yet. But the interesting thing is how I'm using CSS and tables together. I display the inbox contents (basically a query resultset) in a table, and I use CSS and Javascript to enable dynamic sorting of the inbox. Nothing else in the application uses table- just that one screen. Everything else is div's. Next, I'm going to Ajax-ify the app and build a Thunderbird-style mail client in the browser, with inbox in one pane and mail contents in another. I will not use any layers, but lots of divs and the same table for the inbox contents, because a table works best in that situation. >Yes, tables do make sense for tabular data display...it's intuitive for me >to think in terms of query rows and table rows...I just wondered if the >CSS and Layers approach had some superior way of working with >not just general design, but, especially in displaying dynamic data... > >Rick > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 12:29 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: Re: Can CSS and Layers Take the Place of Tables for Displaying >Dynamic Data? > > >one thing to bear in mind is that tables are NOT inherently evil. even in a >CSS world, they serve a purpose (to display tabular data). > prior shortcomings in browsers meant that they were used for layout, which >is what you want to move away from when you move towards CSS. > Since you mention displaying column headers and then the query data, it >does sound like you want to output your data in a tabular fashion, which >would be a appropriate use for tables. > > On 9/9/05, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:217804 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
