Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Barney Carroll

TuteC wrote:

and a screen reader can read the contents.


Eugenio, screen readers have no problem with tables. What you are 
talking about is a myth.


Bob, remember that tables have all sorts of properties that are not down 
to style. For instance, there is the artificial (in that it isn't nested 
in the markup) grouping of columns, descriptive headings with clear 
reference, etc.


But at the end of the day, {display: table} is just as ridiculous as 
div{display:inline} or span{display:block}. Besides, when I made 
table-based designs I often found myself nesting tables within tables, 
and I ended up with horribly deep code (a bit like Google ads, only for 
a reason). With modern CSS we can have table-cells without using table 
bodies or rows or even tables... It makes life a lot simpler.



Regards,
Barney


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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Designer

Barney Carroll wrote:



But at the end of the day, {display: table} is just as ridiculous as 
div{display:inline} or span{display:block}. Besides, when I made 
table-based designs I often found myself nesting tables within tables, 
and I ended up with horribly deep code (a bit like Google ads, only for 
a reason). With modern CSS we can have table-cells without using table 
bodies or rows or even tables... It makes life a lot simpler.



Regards,
Barney



One of the (many) things I wish for is a grid tag.   Something along 
the lines of the following (made up as I go along, so don't nitpick too 
much :-)):


grid
gridcellcontent/gridcell
gridcelldifferent content/gridcell
/grid

This can then be CSS'd of course, in the normal way.

The important point though, is that the number of cells in a grid should 
be restricted to an agreed number (4?) AND most importantly, they cannot 
be nested!  This would provide a solution to the often cumbersome markup 
required to produce equal height columns, It would stop 'nestingitis' 
and - it would be semantic!  It isn't really presentational either, any 
more than p is . . .


(I can dream, can't I? :-))

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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Martin Heiden
Bob,

on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 12:19 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:


 grid
 gridcellcontent/gridcell
 gridcelldifferent content/gridcell
 /grid

 This can then be CSS'd of course, in the normal way.

 The important point though, is that the number of cells in a grid should
 be restricted to an agreed number (4?) AND most importantly, they cannot
 be nested!  This would provide a solution to the often cumbersome markup
 required to produce equal height columns, It would stop 'nestingitis' 
 and - it would be semantic!  It isn't really presentational either, any
 more than p is . . .

I don't think that grid nor gridcell are semantic. In fact it doesn't
say anything about semantics just about presentation. It is an much
cleaner approach to set a div to display: table/table-cell (but the
wording should be changed to grid or something like that...) The div
doesn't imply any semantics either, just structure, but that is what
is needed in this case.

regards

  Martin

 





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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Rimantas Liubertas

One of the (many) things I wish for is a grid tag.   Something along
the lines of the following (made up as I go along, so don't nitpick too
much :-)):

grid
gridcellcontent/gridcell
gridcelldifferent content/gridcell
/grid

This can then be CSS'd of course, in the normal way.

...

(I can dream, can't I? :-))



http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-layout/


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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Designer

Rimantas Liubertas wrote:

One of the (many) things I wish for is a grid tag.   Something along
the lines of the following (made up as I go along, so don't nitpick too
much :-)):

grid
gridcellcontent/gridcell
gridcelldifferent content/gridcell
/grid

This can then be CSS'd of course, in the normal way.

...

(I can dream, can't I? :-))



http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-layout/


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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Designer

Martin Heiden wrote:

Bob,

on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 12:19 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:



grid
gridcellcontent/gridcell
gridcelldifferent content/gridcell
/grid



This can then be CSS'd of course, in the normal way.



The important point though, is that the number of cells in a grid should
be restricted to an agreed number (4?) AND most importantly, they cannot
be nested!  This would provide a solution to the often cumbersome markup
required to produce equal height columns, It would stop 'nestingitis' 
and - it would be semantic!  It isn't really presentational either, any

more than p is . . .


I don't think that grid nor gridcell are semantic. In fact it doesn't
say anything about semantics just about presentation. It is an much
cleaner approach to set a div to display: table/table-cell (but the
wording should be changed to grid or something like that...) The div
doesn't imply any semantics either, just structure, but that is what
is needed in this case.

regards

  Martin



Yeah, that'd do fine. (I told you I was making it up as I went along . . 
. :-))



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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew Pennell

On 2/22/07, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


So, my (genuine) question is, is this really so wrong?  So long as it's
kept really simple, which way is easier to read in a screen reader?
(Include the floated and hacked to death standards version as a third
alternative too).

It seems to me that pragmatism can sometimes outbenefit the religion of
standards - and I'd really like some real world feedback on when such a
table approach causes real problems.   (Yes, I know it's not truly
semantic, and I agree that it's a problem because of that).



The one killer thing that CSS allows you to do, but layout tables don't (and
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet) is that you can rewrite your CSS
to display the contents of the page in a completely different place without
touching the underlying markup  - and this is NOT possible when using a
table.

So, for example, you have used a single layout table to create a 3-column
layout, and built your 10,000 page site using that method. The day before
launch, the CEO decides that the left and right sidebars should be swapped
over; even with a CMS, you probably have dozens of template files to edit
and re-arrange - at worst, you have to edit 10,000 individual files! If
you'd used a pure CSS solution, the only change you have to make is in your
layout.css file. This is the key benefit of the separation of presentation
and content, and why you should avoid using tables for layout.

It is also relevant when you consider using alternative stylesheets, zoom
layouts, user-defined settings, etc. Look at www.adactio.com/journal and try
out the alternative styles - it would have been impossible to do this if he
was using a table (even a simple one) for layout.

Matthew.


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[WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread Designer

Following on from recent conversations about floats etc, we can
summarise by saying that we can have three basic choices:

1.

#grid {display : table}

#colalpha { width : 58%; padding-right :20px; display : 
table-cell; }

#colbeta {  width : 38%; background : #f1f1f1; padding : 0 20px;
display : table-cell; vertical-align : middle; }

which works upon the following structure (but only in Firefox and Opera):

div id=grid 
  div id=colalpha
pDuis lobortis ultricies elit. Nunc et purus vitae risus
venenatis
  molestie. Nullam scelerisque venenatis leo. Quisque sit amet
leo at
  lacus rutrum iaculis. Sed auctor lorem eget nisl. Fusce
pulvinar. Nunc
  varius pellentesque velit. /p
pDuis lobortis ultricies elit. Nunc et purus vitae risus
venenatis
  molestie. Nullam scelerisque venenatis leo. Quisque sit amet
leo at
  lacus rutrum iaculis. Sed auctor lorem eget nisl. Fusce
pulvinar. Nunc
  varius pellentesque velit. /p
pDuis lobortis ultricies elit. Nunc et purus vitae risus
venenatis
  molestie. Nullam scelerisque venenatis leo. Quisque sit amet
leo at
  lacus rutrum iaculis. Sed auctor lorem eget nisl. Fusce
pulvinar. Nunc
  varius pellentesque velit. /p
  /div
  div id=colbeta
pDuis lobortis ultricies elit. Nunc et purus vitae risus
venenatis
  molestie. Nullam scelerisque venenatis leo. Quisque sit amet
leo at
  lacus rutrum iaculis. Sed auctor lorem eget nisl. Fusce
pulvinar. Nunc
  varius pellentesque velit. /p
  /div
/div

This is the standardista's dream. No floats, all equal length heights
etc.  It just doesn't work in most browsers.  (That's all! :-)

However, instead of 'pretending' to have a table, you can actually have
one, viz:

table id=grid 
tr
  td id=colalpha
pDuis lobortis ultricies elit. Nunc et purus vitae
risus venenatis
  molestie. Nullam scelerisque venenatis leo. Quisque
sit amet
  leo at lacus rutrum iaculis. Sed auctor lorem eget
nisl. Fusce
  pulvinar. Nunc varius pellentesque velit. /p
pDuis lobortis ultricies elit. Nunc et purus vitae
risus venenatis
  molestie. Nullam scelerisque venenatis leo. Quisque
sit amet
  leo at lacus rutrum iaculis. Sed auctor lorem eget
nisl. Fusce
  pulvinar. Nunc varius pellentesque velit. /p
pDuis lobortis ultricies elit. Nunc et purus vitae
risus venenatis
  molestie. Nullam scelerisque venenatis leo. Quisque
sit amet
  leo at lacus rutrum iaculis. Sed auctor lorem eget
nisl. Fusce
  pulvinar. Nunc varius pellentesque velit. /p
  /td
  td id=colbeta valign=middle
pDuis lobortis ultricies elit. Nunc et purus vitae
risus venenatis
  molestie. Nullam scelerisque venenatis leo. Quisque
sit amet
  leo at lacus rutrum iaculis. Sed auctor lorem eget
nisl. Fusce
  pulvinar. Nunc varius pellentesque velit. /p
  /td
/tr
  /table

And this does work, in virtually everything.

So, my (genuine) question is, is this really so wrong?  So long as it's
kept really simple, which way is easier to read in a screen reader?
(Include the floated and hacked to death standards version as a third
alternative too).

It seems to me that pragmatism can sometimes outbenefit the religion of
standards - and I'd really like some real world feedback on when such a
table approach causes real problems.   (Yes, I know it's not truly
semantic, and I agree that it's a problem because of that).

Thanks


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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread Barney Carroll

Bob,

As long as you have an audio-only disclaimer just before stating The 
following object does not contain tabular data. Otherwise screen 
readers (supposedly) and standardist developers browsing your site in 
view-source mode (as one does) will get halfway through the content of 
your first td and suddenly come to the horrifying realisation What's 
going on?! This isn't cross-referencing data! and will lose all sense 
of context, suffer psychotic episodes, and never visit your site again.


If you can live with that, go ahead. Just remove that beautiful-looking 
W3 tick logo from the bottom of your pages.


[/joke]

It is all semantics, and will be seen by most designers as fundamentally 
incorrect and misleading. However your page will still be valid and 
accessible, and it's very hard to conceive of a realistic user persona 
whose experience would suffer from this.


There is a lot of mythology about screen-readers being utterly thrown by 
tables, but at the end of the day tables operate as you'd expect, in a 
linear fashion (as they are written in the code) - which is just how 
your layout would be written anyway. The name in and of itself of the 
tags is the only real contention here.


So practically, you wouldn't be inconveniencing your users, but in 
theory you're wrong wrong wrong. Be warned.



Regards,
Barney


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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread stevegreen
Barney is right about screen readers and tables. The behaviour varies insofar
as some screen readers (such as Fire Vox) announce the presence of all the
tables, some don't announce them at all and some (such as JAWS) announce some
tables and not others. I am not sure how it decides which it does and does not
announce. In any case users can usually identify and ignore the markup for
layout tables very easily.

A far bigger problem in my opinion is this recent fad for placing tabular data
in definition lists. Where did that come from? The result really is
incomprehensible because even the best screen readers can make little sense of
the resulting code, no matter how semantically perfect it might be, whereas
there are numerous tools for reading and navigating data tables if they are
marked up correctly.

I would disagree with the statement It is all semantics, and will be seen by
most designers as fundamentally incorrect and misleading. I suspect the
actual figure would be nearer 0.1% of designers, although most on this list
would likely agree with the statement.

Steve



Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Bob,
 
 As long as you have an audio-only disclaimer just before stating The 
 following object does not contain tabular data. Otherwise screen 
 readers (supposedly) and standardist developers browsing your site in 
 view-source mode (as one does) will get halfway through the content of 
 your first td and suddenly come to the horrifying realisation What's 
 going on?! This isn't cross-referencing data! and will lose all sense 
 of context, suffer psychotic episodes, and never visit your site again.
 
 If you can live with that, go ahead. Just remove that beautiful-looking 
 W3 tick logo from the bottom of your pages.
 
 [/joke]
 
 It is all semantics, and will be seen by most designers as fundamentally 
 incorrect and misleading. However your page will still be valid and 
 accessible, and it's very hard to conceive of a realistic user persona 
 whose experience would suffer from this.
 
 There is a lot of mythology about screen-readers being utterly thrown by 
 tables, but at the end of the day tables operate as you'd expect, in a 
 linear fashion (as they are written in the code) - which is just how 
 your layout would be written anyway. The name in and of itself of the 
 tags is the only real contention here.
 
 So practically, you wouldn't be inconveniencing your users, but in 
 theory you're wrong wrong wrong. Be warned.
 
 
 Regards,
 Barney
 
 
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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun

Designer wrote:
It seems to me that pragmatism can sometimes outbenefit the religion 
of standards - and I'd really like some real world feedback on when 
such a table approach causes real problems.   (Yes, I know it's not 
truly semantic, and I agree that it's a problem because of that).


If web standards is a religion, then I'm out of here :-)

As long as you know - and have gone through - all pros and cons, then it
comes down to taking the heat for using that 'HTML table'. No browsers
will ever cause real problems because of it.

The only problem I can see is that one may start feeling so safe with
that old 'HTML table' solution that one stop exploring the various pure
CSS solutions (with workarounds and all) for a while. Browsers and
standards are improving - albeit slowly, so one may have a bit of
catching up to do one day in the future.
Less experienced web designers may also be lead to think that there are
fewer options at hand than there really are, and that won't help on
progress.

I'm pragmatic, and pretty agnostic, when it comes to standards and
standard-compliant browsers. I don't think I will fall back to using
'HTML tables' as layout tools though, as I think it is safer to hack
IE/win and other old browsers to pieces in CSS and keep the source-code
relatively free from such hacks, while I'm waiting for standards to work
as intended across the board.

Now, if only I knew the _intentions_ behind the various parts of those
standards, so I knew what to expect ;-)

regards
Georg
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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread Nick Fitzsimons

On 22 Feb 2007, at 12:07:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

A far bigger problem in my opinion is this recent fad for placing  
tabular data

in definition lists. Where did that come from? The result really is
incomprehensible because even the best screen readers can make  
little sense of
the resulting code, no matter how semantically perfect it might be,  
whereas
there are numerous tools for reading and navigating data tables if  
they are

marked up correctly.


The widespread abuse of definition lists is indeed a baffling  
phenomenon, and almost every example I've seen is best characterised  
as completely ignoring the semantics of such a list - although the  
person responsible will claim that it's more semantic than a table.


It's similar to the fad from a couple of years ago for marking up  
calendars using floated divs (or, possibly, ols).


I think that when people get the idea that tables shouldn't be used  
for layout they somehow end up translating that into their heads as  
tables should never be used for any purpose whatsoever. When faced  
with clearly tabular data, they then scratch around in Google looking  
for some semantically pure way of representing it, and finish up  
following articles with all these crazy dls, never truly  
understanding what they're doing and why it's so wrong. In fact, I  
think some people believe semantically correct is a synonymous term  
for not having any table elements.


Given the range of accessibility features built into the table  
model (things like colgroup, and the axis, scope and headers  
attributes) it's clearly of great potential benefit to users of  
assistive devices if tables are used properly as needed (i.e. for  
tabular data). I believe that many current assistive technologies  
make little use of such features, but that's probably because those  
features are so seldom used in the wild. Perhaps if we abandoned our  
shenanigans with definition lists and started marking up our tables  
correctly, we could make it worthwhile for the manufacturers of such  
technologies to support those features.


(End rant.)

Regards,

Nick.
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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread Barney Carroll

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I would disagree with the statement It is all semantics, and will be seen by
most designers as fundamentally incorrect and misleading. I suspect the
actual figure would be nearer 0.1% of designers, although most on this list
would likely agree with the statement.

Steve


Steve, you're probably a bit nearer the mark on that one. I was talking 
within the context of markup nerd lists (which I occasionally forget are 
not all that indicative of the real world).


Could you elaborate on the misuse of dls?


Regards,
Barney


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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread Barney Carroll

David Dorward wrote:

Every cell in a row represents a day in a week.
Every cell in a column represents the same day of the week.

Looks tabular to me.


Isn't the first precept of semantic markup that looks are no guide as to 
what things actually are?



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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread David Dorward
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:48:21 -, Barney Carroll  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



David Dorward wrote:

Every cell in a row represents a day in a week.
Every cell in a column represents the same day of the week.
 Looks tabular to me.


Isn't the first precept of semantic markup that looks are no guide as to  
what things actually are?


The description of the data structure looks[1] tabular, the default  
presentation of that data structure is immaterial.


[1] in the sense give a certain impression not the act of directing the  
eyes toward something and perceiving it visually


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RE: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread Steve Green
Could you elaborate on the misuse of dls?

I can't remember any specific instances but over the last year on this list
there have been numerous discussions where people were trying to shoehorn
tabular data into definition lists when they clearly should have been using
tables. Nick has obviously noticed the same trend. I don't have time to look
them up but I'll let you know if I remember any. I'll certainly shout the
next time someone does it!

Steve


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To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I would disagree with the statement It is all semantics, and will be 
 seen by most designers as fundamentally incorrect and misleading. I 
 suspect the actual figure would be nearer 0.1% of designers, although 
 most on this list would likely agree with the statement.
 
 Steve

Steve, you're probably a bit nearer the mark on that one. I was talking
within the context of markup nerd lists (which I occasionally forget are not
all that indicative of the real world).

Could you elaborate on the misuse of dls?


Regards,
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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread Designer
Thanks to all who responded. I must say that I basically agree with most 
of what was said, but a few things still bother me, semantic-wise. 
Firstly, doing it 'properly' could be seen as using the following:


#grid {display : table; }

#colalpha { width : 28em; display : table-cell; padding : 10px;  }

	#colbeta {  width : 14em; background : #f1f1f1; display : table-cell; 
vertical-align : middle; padding : 10px;}


However, this is like saying I don't use tables, but I wish I could, so 
I'm going to do the next best thing and make some divs behave like a 
table with cells - Isn't it?   And, if so, that is no more semantic 
than using a table, inasmuch as if the content isn't tabular, then don't 
structure it in a tabular way - and if it is, then fine : use a table.


Which leaves me wondering what the point of 'display : table' actually is?

Anyone?

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Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread David Dorward

Designer wrote:

However, this is like saying I don't use tables, but I wish I could, so 
I'm going to do the next best thing and make some divs behave like a 
table with cells - Isn't it? 


No, it is like saying This isn't tabular data, but I want a tabular 
layout, so my markup is not going to claim tabular semantics, but my 
stylesheet is going to specify tabular display.



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RE: [WSG] layout - choices?

2007-02-22 Thread Jermayn Parker
One I remember is the discussion about a persons dvd list. I remember because I 
personally use a table for my Phantom comic collection, so much easier than 
using anything else...



 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23/02/2007 2:05:59 am 
Could you elaborate on the misuse of dls?

I can't remember any specific instances but over the last year on this list
there have been numerous discussions where people were trying to shoehorn
tabular data into definition lists when they clearly should have been using
tables. Nick has obviously noticed the same trend. I don't have time to look
them up but I'll let you know if I remember any. I'll certainly shout the
next time someone does it!

Steve


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From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
On Behalf Of Barney Carroll
Sent: 22 February 2007 16:24
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 
Subject: Re: [WSG] layout - choices?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I would disagree with the statement It is all semantics, and will be 
 seen by most designers as fundamentally incorrect and misleading. I 
 suspect the actual figure would be nearer 0.1% of designers, although 
 most on this list would likely agree with the statement.
 
 Steve

Steve, you're probably a bit nearer the mark on that one. I was talking
within the context of markup nerd lists (which I occasionally forget are not
all that indicative of the real world).

Could you elaborate on the misuse of dls?


Regards,
Barney


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