>From a novice standpoint, tables were the most difficult thing to work with when I was learning HTML.
I still dislike them, even for tabular data. Where, I grudgingly admit, they do make sense. For non-tabular data, however, tables add a lot of crud to a file, obscuring intention. -Michael Paulukonis http://www.xradiograph.com <http://goog_2112721603>Interference Patterns (a blog) <http://www.xradiograph.com%5Cinterference> @XraysMonaLisa <https://twitter.com/XraysMonaLisa> http://michaelpaulukonis.com <http://www.BestAndroidResources.com> Sent from somewhere in the Cloud (hearthrug, by the fender) On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Petko Yotov <5...@5ko.fr> wrote: > H. Fox writes: > >> I've discovered a one-skin option to consider. >> >> Conditional Comments are only used by IE. We could use those to insert >> the HTML table elements only for old versions of Internet Explorer. >> >> For example, this >> >> <div id='wikileft'> >> <!--wiki:{$Group}.SideBar {$SiteGroup}.SideBar--> >> </div> >> >> becomes something like this >> >> <div id='wikileft'> >> <!--[if lt IE 8 ]><td valign='top'><![endif]--> >> <!--wiki:{$Group}.SideBar {$SiteGroup}.SideBar--> >> <!--[if lt IE 8 ]></td><![endif]--> >> </div> >> > > MSIE<8 will see this exact markup as invalid, ie. div tags in the space > between the <table>, <tr> and <td> tags. It will probably display fine > though, or it can definitely be made valid with some tweaking. > > But will this still be in line of the goals of the original skin? IIRC > simple and easy to study and modify by a novice administrator? > > Recalling from previous discussions with Pm and the community, probably > the least bad solution would be to add the (previous simpler) tableless > skin with a different name. Keep the current default skin named "pmwiki". > Add in the sample-config.php the two skins so people can select the one > which they want. Not force a change to existing websites which upgrade. > > Petko > > > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-devel mailing list > pmwiki-devel@pmichaud.com > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-devel >
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