http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress Resources for librarians who are interested in the application of web design and technologies in libraries Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:04:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/01/08/why-cant-people-do-tableless-design/ http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/01/08/why-cant-people-do-tableless-design/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:51:11 +0000 Karen http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/01/08/why-cant-people-do-tableless-design/ So I started to customize a piece of open source software that the Libraries are interested in using for our archival finding aids. I openned up the code and was immediately disheartened to discovered that the pages are laid out in tables. This isn’t such a problem on the main page. However, when you get into the findings aids themselves this results in nested tables. Anyone who has spent time looking at accessibility issues knows nested tables is BAD. Yet, again and again I encounter them on library webpages and systems. Five years ago this was less troubling because accessibility issues and using CSS for layout was just coming to the forefront. However, the fact that I’m still seeing this stuff now makes me furious. Are people living in retroville? Come on XHTML 2.0 is a working draft of the W3C. Yet we can’t get people to write compliant XHTML 1.0 strict. Sigh. Now what I thought was a small customization job has grown in proportion exponentially. Maybe when I’m done I’ll send the modified code back to the developers with a note.

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