Re: [Tsheetx-developers] CSS vs Tables...

[Scott M. <sco...@gm...>]

Right, good, I just wanted to make sure we weren't going down the road of
"all tables are bad".

-Scott

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Mark Wrightson <ma...@rw...>wrote:

>  Hi Scott,
>
> What Peter meant is that when the time sheet face stuff was in there there
> was tables within tables within tables to such an extent that nothing could
> be changed.  There is still place for tabular structures within tsng i.e.
> google calendars uses tables.  Why shouldn't we?  Peter has been trimming
> down the use of nested tables in an effort to updating the styling of the
> system.
>
> Regards
> Mark
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> On 15/02/2011 15:29, Scott Miller wrote:
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> Hey all,
>
> In the list of work items for 2.0 was Peter had written: "TSNG uses html
> tables to format the web pages. Unfortunately tables have been used to
> excessive degree such that there are many nested tables. Some work has been
> done to replace this table nesting. This cleanup of the html is necessary to
> move to the next step of using css to do the formatting."
>
> So, again, I'm not a CSS expert, but I have worked with it enough, and read
> enough to believe the following is true: there are some things that tables
> can do that CSS can not.  Specifically, CSS can not give you many equal
> width columns for a tabular layout.  So, while I think that removing the
> over reliance on tables is a good thing, I think the movement to shun all
> tables that seems to be rampant within the CSS community, is going a bit to
> far. There are several places, the simple timesheet and reports to name just
> two, that I believe are going to require tables.
>
> So, does this make sense, or am I mistaken?
>
> -Scott
>
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