Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Wilson
Thomas Livingston wrote: The whole basis to my point is that in our little virtual situation, it's too late. The client saw the design. the client wants the design he saw. If you could only do it with a table, you'd say no and/or walk. Just or the record, / I / wouldn't walk; I'd do what

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven? ADMIN THREAD CLOSED

2005-12-19 Thread russ - maxdesign
ADMIN THREAD CLOSED Reasons for closing: The CSS driven thread has gone on far too long and has been dangerously close to flame-wars on several occasions. Time to move on please. Please do not reply to this post or continue this thread. If you have a comment or an issue with the closing of this

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-17 Thread Bob Schwartz
Terrence. Plus I don't want to get into the quirks of clients in this thread, I'd like to concentrate on finding a solution to a real problem that is as reliable (browser-wise) and as easy to implement as it is with a table, Sure... clients who needs them? But see the real problem is

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-17 Thread Rick Faaberg
Why do you assume I didn't? Its this type of flawed assumptions that has caused this thread to wander all over the landscape without arriving at a solution to the problem at hand. And over the last few months, the list has devolved into unending threads that serve nothing wrt web standards.

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-17 Thread Bob Schwartz
Christian, Do these table layouts go in your portfolio? Since you asked. I have my very first site in my portfolio and it is a nested table/spacer gif monster. But except for you guys, I doubt if anyone has ever done a view source on the site. Do these clients recommend you to others

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-17 Thread Terrence Wood
On 17 Dec 2005, at 9:04 PM, Bob Schwartz wrote: Do you think you are being helpful? Believe me, you're not. I think I made it pretty clear that I was having a general rant, not talking directly to you Bob. I was just using your situation as a jumping off point. On 17 Dec 2005, at 9:06 AM,

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-17 Thread Bob Schwartz
Terrence, Obviously you haven't found this thread helpful, but others have. Oddly enough I have, though the (seems to be) answer came in off list. If after doing some testing, the solution does indeed work as I need it to, I will post it for those who remember what the original question

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Bob Schwartz
No can do Bob. I showed you the solution. End of story: solution, choices made, move on :) Yes Sir. Thank you Sir. I will just fold my table and slink away. It's been a honor being in your illustrious presence. I will return when I feel more worthy . bob

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Thomas Livingston
On Dec 15, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Terrence Wood wrote: How can you be stuck without a choice? Would you not at least alert them (clients or peers) to the fact that a better solution may exist? All good points sir. What I took from your original post was this (maybe I was just off base

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Terrence Wood
On 15 Dec 2005, at 9:07 PM, Bob Schwartz wrote: For the record: I am past 1998 in my designs, but as I mentioned earlier, I don't do designs from 1998 because I want to, I have some clients who want that look. Like I said, it was not personal, and I didn't see you comment earlier - but

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Thomas Livingston
On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Terrence Wood wrote: My apologies, I never realised the visual design was non-negotiable. If you have the complete and total luxury of doing whatever the heck you want no matter what your clients want or ask for, then you are a lucky man indeed. - Tom

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Terrence Wood
On 17 Dec 2005, at 5:15 AM, Thomas Livingston wrote: A clients wants a design. And you want developers, etc. to tell clients 'no, you shouldn't do that because the only way to achieve that design is to use tables, and tables are bad so how about you go with a similar design but without a, b,

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Terrence Wood
On 17 Dec 2005, at 9:21 AM, Thomas Livingston wrote: If you have the complete and total luxury of doing whatever the heck you want no matter what your clients want or ask for, then you are a lucky man indeed. I work with constraints in a competitive environment just like everyone else

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Thomas Livingston
On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Terrence Wood wrote: No, I don't want you to tell them the technical reason's of why one design is better than another. Yes, you do. The whole basis to my point is that in our little virtual situation, it's too late. The client saw the design. the client

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/16/05, Thomas Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Terrence Wood wrote: My apologies, I never realised the visual design was non-negotiable. If you have the complete and total luxury of doing whatever the heck you want no matter what your clients want or

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Thomas Livingston
On Dec 16, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: My thinking is that if I ever had to do one of these sites, I would not put it in my portfolio. Oops. My mistake. I accidentally wandered in to the elitist teachers' lounge. I'll just get back out into the hall where I belong. Do

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Derek Featherstone
On 12/16/05, Thomas Livingston wrote: If I have to use a table now, it it _not_ going to be a horrible retro nested mess. It's to achieve something I can't achieve otherwise. Hi Tom - I don't mean this as a sarcastic question or anything. I fully admit I may have missed this if it was already

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Terrence Wood
Thomas Livingston said: On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Terrence Wood wrote: No, I don't want you to tell them the technical reason's of why one design is better than another. Yes, you do. Did you not read the rest of the paragraph above Tom? I thought it was quite clear, but I'll put it

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Duckworth, Nigel
The idea that table based designs look like something from 1998 is ridiculous. I've seen a lot excellent visual design which is implemented in table form (some well others not so well). On the other hand some of what passes for design on this list may be great in terms of standards and

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Terrence Wood
Nigel said: The idea that table based designs look like something from 1998 is ridiculous. Yes, it is, but fortunately no-one here made that claim. It's a figurative term, not literal. We're not talking about a specific look (like techno, goth, post-postmodern, deconstructed), rather a design

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/16/05, Duckworth, Nigel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea that table based designs look like something from 1998 is ridiculous. You are generalizing what was a very specific comment. What we call a 1998 design is 2 or 3 columns, equal height, every column a different color. The key is the

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Duckworth, Nigel
Christian Montoya: What we call a 1998 design is 2 or 3 columns, equal height, every column a different color. The key is the columns being different colors. It was very typical in 1998, and looks retro now. Many of us are just tired of seeing it. Not sure of your point, though the

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Duckworth, Nigel
Terrence said: We're not talking about a specific look (like techno, goth, post-postmodern, deconstructed), rather a design pattern: a head/3 column/foot table layout with multicolored columns Yes, I think I get that, I just disagree with the implication that table based designs are such in

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-15 Thread Bob Schwartz
Stuart, Thanks for the example, but while it displays according to my example, it's not what I'm looking for. (I guess my example assumed too much intuition as to what I was trying to obtain). Here's where your example fails (and perhaps better illustrates the problem I'm trying to

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-15 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/12/15, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... If it can't be done, It can be done, and it has be done hundreds of times (in real world too): take a look at csszengarden.com, or sites featured in cssvault.com, stylegala.com, etc. I'd like to see a humble admission from the non-table people

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-15 Thread Bob Schwartz
Rimantas, Seems like you are not looking for solution, but for simple encouragament to stick with tables. Ok, if the only solution you are going to accept is table, Is there anything to gain in these discussions by you always being so polemic If you have nothing except snide remarks to

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bob Schwartz wrote: In reality I have evidently hit upon a problem with pure CSS. The fact that it may not be a problem for those who do not have clients asking for a certian site design is irrelavent. I do and am seeking a way to satisfy them and do pure (in the spirit of this group) CSS at

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-15 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/15/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reality I have evidently hit upon a problem with pure CSS. The fact that it may not be a problem for those who do not have clients asking for a certian site design is irrelavent. I do and am seeking a way to satisfy them and do pure (in the

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-15 Thread Terrence Wood
Bob Schwartz said: Just because I've stated that if a solution (P7 javascript not withstanding) does not exist that does not involve a table, you non- table people should at least admit it. I'm not aware of 'non-table people' making a claim that CSS can solve every design problem. Was that

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-15 Thread Thomas Livingston
On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Terrence Wood wrote: encouraging your clients to look to other design solutions that don't reply on the use of tables for layout This is just completely unrealistic. First, don't submit a design that you can't build. Otherwise, if you are not the designer, and

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-15 Thread Terrence Wood
Thomas Livingston said: On Dec 15, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Terrence Wood wrote: encouraging your clients to look to other design solutions that don't reply on the use of tables for layout This is just completely unrealistic. What It's unrealistic to advise your clients? Not in my world, my

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-14 Thread Bob Schwartz
Al, Since, my whole point has been that using a simple layout table, as opposed to a nested monstrosity, can sometimes be a good thing I'm glad you are championing my original cause, which somehow got way off course in the thread. Not only can a simple table be a good thing, it is still

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-14 Thread Stuart Homfray
Bob Schwartz wrote: I had hoped for some real solutions when I posted my original two cents, but none came. I can only conclude there are none, yet. I did think more than Rimantas would pop-up with a quick answer for your question, Bob: Which browser can correctly render the

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-14 Thread Terrence Wood
Bob Schwartz said: I had hoped for some real solutions when I posted my original two cents, but none came. I can only conclude there are none, yet. Here's an easy solution: don't create designs that look like they're from 1998 (e.g the 2-col cnet yellow stripe and it's ilk)... there are so

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
Christian, On 12/12/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not trying to center, the issue is height and more correctly height which expands to fit content of nested divs and probably even more correctly a box with columns in it which expands all columns to be equal in height to the one

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Given a choice of one table or hacks to do what one table already does, I'll stick with the one table. Only so called hacks go to the presentation layer (CSS file) and table stays in your HTML markup. If the current specs still have height issues for divs (which it seems they do), how can we

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bert Doorn
And still - table for layout _is_ a hack. I'd rather have that single, easy to spot hack, which adds very little overhead, than multiple background images and extra divs coupled with hyroglyphics in my css file. Yes, I know presentation belongs in the CSS. No, I don't subscribe to Never

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
There is one browser with issues, not the specs. Which browser can correctly render the following: 3 columns, no height defined and a background color different from that of the body in column 1 goes a 1000px high image in column 2 goes a 750px high image in column 3 goes a 500px high

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/13/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one browser with issues, not the specs. Which browser can correctly render the following: 3 columns, no height defined and a background color different from that of the body in column 1 goes a 1000px high image in column 2 goes

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
I'd rather have that single, easy to spot hack, which adds very little overhead, than multiple background images and extra divs coupled with hyroglyphics in my css file. Amen ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread designer
OK, we've had this before, but here we go again. Show me an example of centering a div vertically and horizontally on the screen, where you don't need to know ANY sizes beforehand, don't need negative margins, AND the result works in the viewport even when the viewport is smaller than the

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Ryan Blunden
I've found this particular topic so interesting, as I've gotten an insight into the different approaches people take towards building standards based designs or should I say, CSS driven designs. As we all know, there is not one perfect, fully robust, all conquering 100% correct way to design any

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread heretic
As for a standards-based page, agreeing that it is not a hard and fast rule that tables be banned for layout, can you present some logical arguments against this page - keeping strictly within the context of standards: http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/zealotry/linear_basics.htm I would

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Christian Montoya wrote: On 12/13/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one browser with issues, not the specs. Which browser can correctly render the following: 3 columns, no height defined and a background color different from that of the body ... the end result should be

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
I'd rather have that single, easy to spot hack, which adds very little overhead, than multiple background images and extra divs coupled with hyroglyphics in my css file. Amen So, how are you going to style your single table? Either with CSS with all multiple background imageas and extra

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
On 12/13/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one browser with issues, not the specs. Which browser can correctly render the following: 3 columns, no height defined and a background color different from that of the body in column 1 goes a 1000px high image in column 2 goes a

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
On 13 Dec, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Rimantas Liubertas wrote: I'd rather have that single, easy to spot hack, which adds very little overhead, than multiple background images and extra divs coupled with hyroglyphics in my css file. Amen So, how are you going to style your single table? Either

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/12/13, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is one browser with issues, not the specs. Which browser can correctly render the following: ... http://rimantas.com/bits/notable.html Opera: since version 4. Gecko browsers: works with the oldest I have got: Mozilla Seamonkey 0.6

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Al Sparber
heretic wrote: As for a standards-based page, agreeing that it is not a hard and fast rule that tables be banned for layout, can you present some logical arguments against this page - keeping strictly within the context of standards: http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/zealotry/linear_basics.htm

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Schwartz
Try it in IE Mac, you're in for a surprise. 2005/12/13, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is one browser with issues, not the specs. Which browser can correctly render the following: ... http://rimantas.com/bits/notable.html Opera: since version 4. Gecko browsers: works with the

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Al Sparber
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Driven? Try it in IE Mac, you're in for a surprise. 2005/12/13, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is one browser with issues, not the specs. Which browser can correctly render the following: ... http://rimantas.com/bits

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Display: table-cell is a great tool, but its practicality will not be meaningful for several years. While IE5 Mac is fairly irrelevant, IE5 and IE6 Windows have a long life remaining. It's a fun declaration to play with, but serious commercial designers would be ill-advised to depend on it at

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/13/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/13/05, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in other words: below the image in column 1, no background color shows below the image in column 2, 250px of background color shows below the image in column 3, 500px of background color

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Stephen Stagg
It depends on who the recipient of the policy doc is. One, very large, contractor we were working with considered MUST to mean SHOULD, and SHOULD to be IF YOU CAN BE RSED. They're government funded so no-one cared. Stephen heretic wrote: I guess your assertion hinges on how one interprets

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Stephen Stagg
Al Sparber wrote: In any case, we are dealing with a language (English, that is) which produced the rule I before E except when it's not. I know, it used to be ...before C but that's not actually true (weird isn't it). Crazy language :) Except it's not a rule but an aid to correct spelling.

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Al Sparber
From: Stephen Stagg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Al Sparber wrote: In any case, we are dealing with a language (English, that is) which produced the rule I before E except when it's not. I know, it used to be ...before C but that's not actually true (weird isn't it). Crazy language :) Except it's

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Stephen Stagg
I take it, therefore, that none of your sites use style sheets at all (unnecessary), they all use a serif font for body content(easier to read long para's when in serifs) and that images are only used for visualization aids? Very little of what we do is determined by necessity, otherwise we

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/13/05, Stephen Stagg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take it, therefore, that none of your sites use style sheets at all (unnecessary), they all use a serif font for body content(easier to read long para's when in serifs) and that images are only used for visualization aids? Very little of

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Kim Kruse
Tables are great divs are great and if you mix them it's almost twice as good or half as bad... whatever! (I think this subject has been driven way too hard and for x-mas I want it to run out of fuel :-) ) -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Kim Kruse -

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Al Sparber wrote: heretic wrote: 3) The table means you are tied to that specific layout for the life of the page (or you have to modify every single page to change the layout). You can't use CSS to switch the navigation to the other side or any nifty tricks like that. Of course, that might

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-13 Thread heretic
I would pose the counter question: agreeing that it could have been done easily enough in CSS, why use a table? No arguments for the table? :) Fair enough. Of course, my opinion differs in that I believe that there is no standard mandating that a table not be used for layout. Personally

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread russ - maxdesign
What is the definition of a CSS driven design ? You could say that a css-driven site is one that has all or the majority of presentation removed from the markup and placed in CSS files. Having said this, I googled the word driven for a definition and found that it also meant mobs goaded by

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Kim Kruse
LOL... priceless. Thank you. Having said this, I googled the word driven for a definition and found that it also meant mobs goaded by blind hatred I don't know about anyone else but I often use angry mobs to control my web pages - though it is hard to get them to exhibit blind hate. :) Russ

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Absalom Media
russ - maxdesign wrote: What is the definition of a CSS driven design ? You could say that a css-driven site is one that has all or the majority of presentation removed from the markup and placed in CSS files. So where's the dividing line between table based design and CSS driven ? My

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/12/05, russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the definition of a CSS driven design ? You could say that a css-driven site is one that has all or the majority of presentation removed from the markup and placed in CSS files. Having said this, I googled the word driven for a

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Geoff Deering
russ - maxdesign wrote: I don't know about anyone else but I often use angry mobs to control my web pages - though it is hard to get them to exhibit blind hate. :) Russ Could I please request a tutorial on this method please Russ... - Geoff

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/12/05, Absalom Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: russ - maxdesign wrote: What is the definition of a CSS driven design ? You could say that a css-driven site is one that has all or the majority of presentation removed from the markup and placed in CSS files. So where's the dividing

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread emma
A distinction needs to be made. The html coding can be table based or tableless and in both cases the page can be CSS driven or not. On 12/12/05, Absalom Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: russ - maxdesign wrote: What is the definition of a CSS driven design ? You could say that a css-driven

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions
What is the definition of a CSS driven design ? I would suggest that a CSS driven site is one in which the look and layout of the site is controlled by CSS, rather than by the default behaviours of 'traditional'[1] presentational elements. Changing a single CSS declaration can theoretically

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A distinction needs to be made. The html coding can be table based or tableless and in both cases the page can be CSS driven or not. Sorry, that is wrong. A table based layout is not CSS driven. There's a difference between driven and

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Al Sparber
From: Absalom Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] So where's the dividing line between table based design and CSS driven ? My searching thus far has turned up Meyer, comments about the Zen Garden, and a few other proponents across the Net implying or stating that CSS driven means pretty much all CSS

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Al Sparber
From: Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please, no more silly statements like that. This is the Web Standards Group. To take it a step further, the html coding can never be table based. That's hacking, not coding. --- I hope you are

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Patrick Lauke
Al Sparber From: Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please, no more silly statements like that. This is the Web Standards Group. To take it a step further, the html coding can never be table based. That's hacking, not coding. ---

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread emma
Sorry, but I have to disagree. Tables as well as divs, spans etc. are containers. They are both html elements. I don't think that any standard has suppressed the table element from html and in my dictionary, hacking is modifying a program in an unauthorized manner. Are tables unauthorized? I never

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Al Sparber
From: Patrick Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Al, maybe Christian's wording was a bit brusque, but looking at the facts: a) the standard clearly states Tables should not be used purely as a means to layout document content http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html - this makes the use of tables

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Patrick Lauke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Are tables unauthorized? I never said that tables are meant for design. But even by w3.org standards they are used for displaying tabular data . Tabular data is, of course, a completely different matter. Using tables is of course the best, most semantic way to present that

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Heiden
Hi, on Monday, December 12, 2005 at 15:01 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: Sorry, but I have to disagree. Tables as well as divs, spans etc. are containers. They are both html elements. I don't think that any standard has suppressed the table element from html and in my dictionary, hacking

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Al Sparber
From: Martin Heiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Driven? Hi, on Monday, December 12, 2005 at 15:01 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: Sorry, but I have to disagree. Tables as well as divs, spans etc

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/12/12, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... I guess your assertion hinges on how one interprets the word should. Perhaps I am English-challenged, but I always took should to have a suggestive or advisory connotation, while shall or must are obligatory :-) ...

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Patrick Lauke
Al Sparber I guess your assertion hinges on how one interprets the word should. Perhaps I am English-challenged, but I always took should to have a suggestive or advisory connotation, while shall or must are obligatory :-) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt 3. SHOULD This word, or

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
But CSS is the de-facto preferred way of defining layout of (X)HTML documents, and using tables for layout is a case of ignoring a particular item in the HTML spec. Maybe I'm behind in my CSS religious training, but... I've found the need to use one table as a base layout because I still

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Al Sparber
From: Patrick Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:50 AM Subject: RE: [WSG] CSS Driven? Al Sparber I guess your assertion hinges on how one interprets the word should. Perhaps I am English-challenged, but I always took should to have

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Al Sparber
From: Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Driven? But CSS is the de-facto preferred way of defining layout of (X)HTML documents, and using tables for layout is a case of ignoring a particular item

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
, no regrets (unless I'm tossed out of the garden). From: Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Driven? But CSS is the de-facto preferred way of defining layout of (X)HTML documents, and using tables for layout

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Patrick Lauke
Bob Schwartz I've found the need to use one table as a base layout because I still cannot get a div to expand in height (no height defined) to incompass its nested content as a table cell does. If your nested content is positioned absolutely, then there is currently no plain vanilla

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Al Sparber
From: Rimantas Liubertas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Driven? 2005/12/12, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... I guess your assertion hinges on how one interprets the word should. Perhaps I am English-challenged

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Al Sparber
From: Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Driven? Now you'll get the no javascript fanatics chiming in. I have clients who want pages that have a box floating in the horizontal center of the page

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks, Sometime it is absolutely positioned. Couldn't the if floated solution be considered a hack? :-} It is starting to sound as if my reasons for using one table once-and- awhile are still valid and that there are still some height issues with divs. Bob Schwartz I've found the

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Driven? Now you'll get the no javascript fanatics chiming in. I have clients who want pages that have a box floating in the horizontal center of the page and the height of the box to vary depending on its

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Patrick Lauke
Bob Schwartz Couldn't the if floated solution be considered a hack? :-} It is starting to sound as if my reasons for using one table once-and- awhile are still valid and that there are still some height issues with divs. If you're floating or absolutely positioning things, a table

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Schwartz
I'm not trying to center, the issue is height and more correctly height which expands to fit content of nested divs and probably even more correctly a box with columns in it which expands all columns to be equal in height to the one with the most content. Bob Schwartz Couldn't the if

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Emma Dobrescu
, December 12, 2005 7:22 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Driven? Hi Emma, I'd like to tackle your question. Yes, you can consider a table a container. However, in HTML a table contains tabular data, not other tables, not layout. HTML was designed by scientists, for whom

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/12/05, Emma Dobrescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's suppose you have a page that involves tabular data. You got two versions of this page, one built with divs/spans/lists and another one built with tables. Both versions are css enhanced. Why would you call one css driven and the other

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Marilyn Langfeld
I'll take another stab at this, though others may disagree. I would define CSS-driven as probably requiring external CSS file(s), as opposed inline CSS enhancement (your term) per page. That separates the presentation (in the CSS files) from the content cleanly and allows the CSS file(s)

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Kenny Graham
A desperate attempt to simplify: CSS Driven: No presentational markup, no semantic markup used improperly for presentational purposes. CSS handles all presentation. Not CSS Driven: Lots of presentational markup, but CSS for font sizes and colors.

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread heretic
I guess your assertion hinges on how one interprets the word should. Perhaps I am English-challenged, but I always took should to have a suggestive or advisory connotation, while shall or must are obligatory :-) One quick comment on this... I always write must in draft policy documents; but

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Mike Brown
Al Sparber wrote: I do agree that English is a crazy language - but that's as far as I go :-) The gent from Harvard provide the link to the W3C's definition of should, which seems to jive with mine. As for a standards-based page, agreeing that it is not a hard and fast rule that tables be

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Miles Tillinger
Could CSS be used to display that two-column table layout as a single column? Say. for small screen devices like PDA's or XDA's? Seems to be a flaw of table-based layouts and crosses platform-independence off the list... correct me if I'm wrong (I usually am)... Regards, Miles. As for a

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Miles Tillinger wrote: Could CSS be used to display that two-column table layout as a single column? td { display:block; } Works in Firefox and Opera (Windows). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/13/05, Miles Tillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could CSS be used to display that two-column table layout as a single column? Say. for small screen devices like PDA's or XDA's? Seems to be a flaw of table-based layouts and crosses platform-independence off the list... correct me if

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