tableless design ==> practical problems???

Quarco

I know.. i know.. tables are not the best solution to solve things..
But... What about an auto-scaling table like:

<table width="100%" >
<col />
<col width="400" />
<tr>
<td><div id="googleMap" style="width: 100%"></div></td>
<td>Menu-kind-of-thing</td>
</tr>
</table>

I really tried to do that first with floating div's, but: then I had to work
with a <body onresize="setSize()"function that recalculated the available
width and adjusted the content-div when window resized..But... then
again... FireFox complains it doesn't recognise onresize ....
So....
Do we really need to expell tables or do they provide some practical
functionallity????
Dutch regards,
Marco

Jun 27 '08 #1

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Gregor Kofler

Quarco meinte:

I know.. i know.. tables are not the best solution to solve things..
But... What about an auto-scaling table like:

<table width="100%" >
<col />
<col width="400" />
<tr>
<td><div id="googleMap" style="width: 100%"></div></td>
<td>Menu-kind-of-thing</td>
</tr>
</table>

Fascinating markup. Anyway, where is the JS-related question?

Gregor
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Jun 27 '08 #2

Quarco

"Which approach is the best (from DOM / css / standards / etc point of view)

:-)

I had it to work with javascript and floating div's, but after trying these
(working) 8 lines of table-code I thought "Perhaps the javascript approach
is the wrong solution"..

"Gregor Kofler" <us****@gregorkofler.atschreef in bericht
news:kX*************@nntpserver.swip.net...

Quarco meinte:
>I know.. i know.. tables are not the best solution to solve things..
But... What about an auto-scaling table like:

<table width="100%" >
<col />
<col width="400" />
<tr>
<td><div id="googleMap" style="width: 100%"></div></td>
<td>Menu-kind-of-thing</td>
</tr>
</table>

Fascinating markup. Anyway, where is the JS-related question?

Gregor
--
http://photo.gregorkofler.at ::: Landschafts- und Reisefotografie
http://web.gregorkofler.com ::: meine JS-Spielwiese
http://www.image2d.com ::: Bildagentur für den alpinen Raum

Jun 27 '08 #3

Gregor Kofler

Quarco meinte:

"Which approach is the best (from DOM / css / standards / etc point of view)

Could you please stop top-posting. (And quoting sigs.)

:-)

I had it to work with javascript and floating div's, but after trying these
(working) 8 lines of table-code I thought "Perhaps the javascript approach
is the wrong solution"..

CSS/HTML is sufficient. If you need JS you got it completely wrong.

Gregor

--
http://photo.gregorkofler.at ::: Landschafts- und Reisefotografie
http://web.gregorkofler.com ::: meine JS-Spielwiese
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