Patrick R. Michaud said... > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 06:51:17PM -0000, marc wrote: > > Sandy said... > > CSS is great, and > can be made to do columns if the relative sizes of elements are > fairly static, but I once spent weeks trying to come up with > a flexible column-based skin for PmWiki that didn't use tables, > and I finally decided the effort wasn't worth it.
Please cite, and let us go to work. > I totally understand (and even largely agree with) the > semantic-web reasons for using tables only for table-oriented > content. But my experience is that from a practical perspective, > the current browser and CSS implementations (and even the design > of CSS) means that it's still _far_ easier to do layouts with > tables than other means. While I disagree with your assertion, fervently, I certainly agree - as I have before - that CSS is a very poor implementation of a typographical solution to our presentational needs. It's years since the thought of using tables remotely crossed my mind (for anything other than tables) and I see no reason to look back. That said, it's even longer since I considered procedural code, yet here I am with PmWiki ;-) -- Cheers, Marc _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
