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RE: Simple layout tables

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From: Pat Richard
Date: Jul 8, 2005 10:02AM

I tend to follow these issues:
Top seven reasons to avoid tables:
http://www.workingwith.me.uk/tablefree/why/

YMMV

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Joshue O
Connor
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 10:30 AM
To: ben morrison; WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Simple layout tables

I see what you mean. And I also have an issue with CSS behaviour, or
maybe I should rephrase that - I have an issue with the unpredictable
way UA's (step up IE in all your forms) renders it. I know this is not
strictly an accessibility issue but a design issue (Are things that
clearcut anymore anyway??). Is there anything wrong with using a
table, as on the RNIB site and coding thus

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
summary="layout table">

The text resizes pretty well, even when the text is enlarged quite a
lot. So I can see it could be a useful technique and also its not
difficult to code and there would be no wildly varying differences in
the way it renders in different browsers.

But is it going backwards using tables??

Josh




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