Re: [Webwork-devel] Controls and CSS vs tables

[Rickard <ri...@mi...>]

+1. Good ideas.

Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:

> No! My vote is definitely -1 on this one. The default templates as is use
> tables which is much more cross browser compatible and easy to modify IMHO.
> 
> I have no problem with a CSS 'scheme' for templates but IMHO the default
> should use tables. 
> 
> I know people are going to bitch about which the 'default' scheme should be
> - so I have a counter argument ;) Why not add a configuration option for the
> 'default' scheme to webwork.properties?
> 
> ui.scheme.default=css
> 
> Etc. That way tables can be the default (with no extra configuration) and
> people with the 'know how' can easily change to CSS as the default scheme
> with one change (not changing every <ui> tag!) - much less bitching!
> 
> (IMHO this option also has lots of extra uses, sometimes I'd like to
> 'design' a new scheme and then swap the entire site at once to a new scheme
> - this would make it very easy)