Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: ASCII status bars and low tech status bars

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5: Re: ASCII status bars and low tech status bars (response to 1)
Posted by Mike Sisk on 04/25/03 10:12 PM
This is cool html hack, but I'd like to see us using XHTML/CSS-based layout instead of this nested-table stuff.

You can make a status graph just like this with a few lines of CSS, a blue graphic and a couple div tags. Heck, I bet someone better than me at CSS could do it without the graphic at all.

Just something to think about -- I think it's time to banish table-based HTML layout and move on, IMHO. YMMV.

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9: Re: ASCII status bars and low tech status bars (response to 5)
Posted by Steve Manning on 04/25/03 11:36 PM
My experience is that pure CSS design whilst desirable is not possible until all the browsers support CSS in the same way.

The tableless sites that I've seen bend over backwards to cope with the differences between browsers - or simply don't bother  so unless your using IE5+ on Windows the layout sucks.

By the way I've used this trick to produce a simple histogram - its not just limited to a status bar.

  Steve

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15: Re: ASCII status bars and low tech status bars (response to 5)
Posted by Andrei Popov on 04/30/03 02:05 PM
The next step could be getting rid of nested tables in form template (or maybe this should be the first step?)