Sent by Eric A. Meyer on 29 October 2004 20:08
At 9:00 -0700 10/29/04, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Is there a way of presenting content such as a calendar without tables?
>I'm just curious.
There is; you could use floats or positioning. I did an example
using floats:
<http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/discuss/examples/notable-calendar.html>
The first one shows one of the problems with floats, and the second
shows a way to work around that problem. I don't thank these are
particularly good solutions: a quick glance at the markup will shows
that it's as bulky as using a table, if not more so.
> I apologize for sounding critical.
Honestly, I didn't take it that way. I was more concerned about
what I saw as a mischaracterization of the book, intentional or
otherwise. Someone who was thinking about buying a CSS book might
Google around and find your post saying "what's with all the tables?"
and decide that any CSS book that extensively used tables wasn't
worth buying. So I posted a correction, the same as I would if
someone said (or implied) my books were largely based on techniques
that don't work in IE/Win. A few things I discuss don't work in
IE/Win, it's true, but the vast majority do.
There may well be plenty of reasons not to buy my books, of
course. Some people don't like the tone of my writing. Others just
can't relate to the text-editor hands-on approach, as they much
prefer to use a program like Dreamweaver or GoLive and not muck
around directly with the markup and CSS. Those things don't bother
me. I just prefer that people who decide to buy or not buy a book do
it based on accurate information about the books themselves, so they
stand a better chance of making the choice that's best for them.
--
Eric A. Meyer (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone
"CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously."
-- Martina Kosloff (http://www.mako4css.com/)
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