Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-20 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, April 20, 2007 9:20 am, Jochem Maas wrote: > Jay Blanchard wrote: >> [snip] >> This site (http://www.soyatec.com/main.php) doesn't seem to use >> table. At least a simple search of the "table" keyword in several >> pages >> has no result. >> [/snip] >> >> The CSS is pretty compact too.

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-20 Thread Jochem Maas
Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > This site (http://www.soyatec.com/main.php) doesn't seem to use > table. At least a simple search of the "table" keyword in several pages > has no result. > [/snip] > > The CSS is pretty compact too. > > BTW, I agree with what others said earlier, this discuss

RE: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-20 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] This site (http://www.soyatec.com/main.php) doesn't seem to use table. At least a simple search of the "table" keyword in several pages has no result. [/snip] The CSS is pretty compact too. BTW, I agree with what others said earlier, this discussion is relevant to PHP developers becau

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-20 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Richard Lynch wrote: > On Tue, April 17, 2007 10:15 pm, Paul Novitski wrote: > >> At 4/17/2007 07:53 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:28 -0500, Anna V wrote: >>> I've never never had used tables for layouts (I worked on pretty complicated projects

RE: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-19 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, April 19, 2007 1:00 pm, Jim Moseby wrote: > >> In >> fact, I may be going out on a limb here, but I challenge anyone to >> describe a layout that isn't covered. > > > I want a layout that looks identical in every browser without > resorting to > something like: > > switch($browser){ > c

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Goodchild
Can we kill this now please? It's not a php issue, is an old and endless argument and is better addressed on a css / design list.

RE: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-19 Thread Jim Moseby
> In > fact, I may be going out on a limb here, but I challenge anyone to > describe a layout that isn't covered. I want a layout that looks identical in every browser without resorting to something like: switch($browser){ case 'IE':include('ie.css'); case 'Mozilla':include('mozilla.css')

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-19 Thread Wolf
That, and the big OT at the end means Off-Topic... So if you don't want to get OT, just hit delete. ;) tedd wrote: At 8:59 AM +1200 4/19/07, Bruce Cowin wrote: Now can we please close this thread! There are better forums to discuss this - it has nothing to do with PHP!! Lori Lori: True,

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-19 Thread Philip Thompson
On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:08 AM, tedd wrote: At 8:59 AM +1200 4/19/07, Bruce Cowin wrote: Now can we please close this thread! There are better forums to discuss this - it has nothing to do with PHP!! Lori Lori: True, it has nothing to do with php programming other than compliance, accessi

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-19 Thread tedd
At 11:36 PM -0500 4/18/07, Richard Lynch wrote: But I don't think we're going to reach that Utopia where IE and FF actually follow the standards in the same ways well enough to get out of this CSS hack nightmare. Well, as long as the old IE browsers are being used, then we'll continue to have

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-19 Thread tedd
At 8:59 AM +1200 4/19/07, Bruce Cowin wrote: Now can we please close this thread! There are better forums to discuss this - it has nothing to do with PHP!! Lori Lori: True, it has nothing to do with php programming other than compliance, accessibility, data gathering and data presentation.

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 17, 2007 10:15 pm, Paul Novitski wrote: > At 4/17/2007 07:53 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: >>On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:28 -0500, Anna V wrote: >> > I've never never had used tables for layouts (I worked on pretty >> > complicated projects)... Heck, http://espn.com is CSS based, and >> it

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 17, 2007 10:35 pm, Paul Novitski wrote: > At 4/17/2007 07:54 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: >>tables were intended for laying out tabular data. > > This is an interesting assertion. Perhaps it would be a good > question for Tim Berners-Lee. Was table markup intended to mark up > tabular

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 17, 2007 10:04 pm, Larry Garfield wrote: > Sidebars are not tables. If you squint so the content is all greeked, it looks like a table... :-) :-) :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/fr

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 17, 2007 8:14 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > ... CSS is only > semi-forward compatible. Actually, that remains to be seen, really... And given Microsoft behaviour in the past, I'm not real sanguine about the future of CSS compatibility... I think it's already at the point where CSS i

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 17, 2007 6:53 pm, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > >> > BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with a reasonable >> amount of >> > practice can make CSS layouts that resize as well as table based >> layouts >> > everyday of the w

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Bruce Cowin
And makes for very clean code. Very nice! Regards, Bruce >>> Lori Lay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 19/04/2007 5:02:33 a.m. >>> Wolf wrote: > OK, so I like sticking my nose in sometimes... > > Accessibility Standards and being bobby approved. > > http://webxact2.watchfire.com/report.asp?t=2#priority3 >

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Edward Vermillion
Wolf wrote: OK, so I like sticking my nose in sometimes... Accessibility Standards and being bobby approved. http://webxact2.watchfire.com/report.asp?t=2#priority3 on http://lonewolf.homelinux.net/ Is just about as good as http://www.csszengarden.com Just the same 1 error :) Just FYI...

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Eric Butera
On 4/18/07, Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, so I like sticking my nose in sometimes... Accessibility Standards and being bobby approved. http://webxact2.watchfire.com/report.asp?t=2#priority3 on http://lonewolf.homelinux.net/ Is just about as good as http://www.csszengarden.com Just the s

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Lori Lay
Wolf wrote: OK, so I like sticking my nose in sometimes... Accessibility Standards and being bobby approved. http://webxact2.watchfire.com/report.asp?t=2#priority3 on http://lonewolf.homelinux.net/ Is just about as good as http://www.csszengarden.com Just the same 1 error :) At least show s

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Wolf
OK, so I like sticking my nose in sometimes... Accessibility Standards and being bobby approved. http://webxact2.watchfire.com/report.asp?t=2#priority3 on http://lonewolf.homelinux.net/ Is just about as good as http://www.csszengarden.com Just the same 1 error :) -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT OT OT OT OT OT OT OT OT OT

2007-04-18 Thread tg-php
Mom! Dad! Please don't fight! = = = Original message = = = On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:04 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 9:54 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > You say "Using tables for layout *is* a hack". Unfortunately for you > > tables were intended for laying out

RE: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] They're not hacks, they're features. :-) I agree with Jay. Leonard -- as far as 99% of the time for anything on the web, prove it. You can't -- your trolling. Leonard -- as far as resizing properly, what the hell are you talking about? The question is rhetorical I don't care to dwell

RE: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-18 Thread tedd
At 4:40 PM -0400 4/17/07, Robert Cummings wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 14:45 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: At 3:40 PM -0400 4/17/07, Leonard Burton wrote: > >From the CSS discussion of the WWE job posting thread. > > There is one question that shows that a table based layout in 99% of > cases

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Paul Novitski
At 4/17/2007 07:54 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: You say "Using tables for layout *is* a hack". I believe what he meant was that using tables for layout of non-tabular data is a hack. tables were intended for laying out tabular data. This is an interesting assertion. Perhaps it would be a

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:20 -0500, Anna V wrote: > On 4/17/07, Paul Novitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > At 4/17/2007 07:53 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: > > >On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:28 -0500, Anna V wrote: > > > > I've never never had used tables for layouts (I worked on pretty > > > > compl

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:04 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 9:54 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > You say "Using tables for layout *is* a hack". Unfortunately for you > > tables were intended for laying out tabular data. Thank you, thank you > > very much. > > Tabular dat

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Anna V
On 4/17/07, Paul Novitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 4/17/2007 07:53 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: >On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:28 -0500, Anna V wrote: > > I've never never had used tables for layouts (I worked on pretty > > complicated projects)... Heck, http://espn.com is CSS based, and it looks

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Paul Novitski
At 4/17/2007 07:53 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:28 -0500, Anna V wrote: > I've never never had used tables for layouts (I worked on pretty > complicated projects)... Heck, http://espn.com is CSS based, and it looks > pretty darn amazing. Just my quick thought on this. :)

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:03 -0500, Anna V wrote: > > > On 4/17/07, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:28 -0500, Anna V wrote: > > On 4/17/07, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 18:53 -0500

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Larry Garfield
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 9:54 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:21 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 8:14 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 18:53 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings w

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Anna V
On 4/17/07, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:28 -0500, Anna V wrote: > On 4/17/07, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 18:53 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > >

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:21 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 8:14 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 18:53 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > > BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:28 -0500, Anna V wrote: > On 4/17/07, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 18:53 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > > > > > BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Anna V
On 4/17/07, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 18:53 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with a reasonable amount of > > > practice can make CSS layouts that res

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Larry Garfield
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 8:14 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 18:53 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with a reasonable amount > > > > of practice can make CSS layouts tha

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 18:53 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with a reasonable amount of > > > practice can make CSS layouts that resize as well as table based layouts > > > everyday of the

Re: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Larry Garfield
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with a reasonable amount of > > practice can make CSS layouts that resize as well as table based layouts > > everyday of the week. I will refer you to http://www.csszengarden.com/ > > Only wit

RE: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 17, 2007 2:45 pm, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > From the CSS discussion of the WWE job posting thread. > > There is one question that shows that a table based layout in 99% of > cases is superior to a CSS layout. > > Try resizing most any CSS based page. > > Tables are 99% of the ti

RE: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 14:45 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > >From the CSS discussion of the WWE job posting thread. > > There is one question that shows that a table based layout in 99% of > cases is superior to a CSS layout. > > Try resizing most any CSS based page. > > Tables are 99% of

RE: [PHP] CSS vs. Tables OT

2007-04-17 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] >From the CSS discussion of the WWE job posting thread. There is one question that shows that a table based layout in 99% of cases is superior to a CSS layout. Try resizing most any CSS based page. Tables are 99% of the time superior as it will resize properly whereas 99% of most CSS base