RE: FN-FORUM Another site check :)

date posted 3rd September 2002 16:33

> Darran, no excuse for the doctype, but did you see Zeldman's
> daily report? A certain amount of backtracking from the 'to
> hell with bad browsers' tirade: http://www.zeldman.com/
> ...but still championing accessibility and valid markup, of course.

Hmmm, think I may have to find another standard link to use for CSS
evangelism. Have to see if Eric Meyer's got anything similar to the ALA
article.

Oh well, probably not a bad thing. It may have to wait till I've got a
bit more time though...

His report from 2002-08-30 does clarify that they're not talking about
going back to tables on ALA, but finding a workaround for the float bug,
which according to today's (2002-09-03) they have. Yet another
JavaScript hack to fix buggy IE behaviour. Think I might have to
combine it with the position: fixed hack and add it to my templates.

Still, having the author of such a strong article saying that basic
layout tables are okay for commercial sites is pretty dire. Perhaps we
might be in need of a list of commercial sites using XHTML for content
markup and CSS for presentation. Again, something that may have to wait
a couple of weeks (months!).

Darran.