Re: Standards, compliance and accessibility- its here! : (Was: Just tell me why?)

by David Jones <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>

 Date:  Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:45:17 -1000
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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Hmmm, I for one like standards-compliant coding, but I 
disagree with the philosophy that tables are evil and 
must only be used for displaying tabular data. They are 
still the only way to get many functional layouts in 
browsers that are *not* compliant with current 
standards. And the WWW is about information sharing, 
not locking someone out because they don't (or can't) 
use what you might consider a "standards-compliant" 
browser.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 10 Feb 2004, at 12:46, Michael Kear wrote:

> But the most important change is that my code no longer
> has tables except in a few special circumstances.  The
> last 3 sites I built had NO tables. NOT ONE Table.  
> Without nested tables, finding a bit of code to modify is
> a piece of cake.  The pages are lighter, load faster and
> are more consistent. Reskinning one of these sites is a
> matter of hours not days. Changing the look of  a site is
> often possible right there in the client meeting.
> Impresses them that does!
 

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