Gerald Combs wrote:
What is it about tables that causes browsing in PDAs and cell phones to fail? Why would this cause more trouble for blind users?
Not fail. Presented as a useless stream of text and fields with no context or headings giving meaning or structure to the document.
...but I don't want absolute positioning. Here's my abbreviated RFC:
I'll do a Mozilla compatible mock-up this weekend. It should only take me about an hour or two to have the box model you want completed. The trick is to use 'min-width: ' on your page body. Again, IE not-with-standing.
Check out http://www.plone.org/. First, read the content. You'll find that they're all about the semantic web, standards compliance, and accessibility. Now, look at the source. They're using tables.
Yes, this supports your argument. However, their pages do not pass Bobby and while they might have been able to hide the semantic meaning with 'display: hidden;' from visual browsers, I think that this is asking for trouble. The other benefit to CSS is that it acts as a template seperating style from content -- they've lost that benefit by resorting to tables. CSS -- once it's been designed -- can really save you time on your maintenance.