[pmwiki-devel] Default Skin: Switch to CSS Table?

[Petko Yotov]

H. Fox writes:
> I've discovered a one-skin option to consider.
>
> Conditional Comments are only used by IE. We could use those to insert
> the HTML table elements only for old versions of Internet Explorer.
>
> For example, this
>
>     <div id='wikileft'>
>       <!--wiki:{$Group}.SideBar {$SiteGroup}.SideBar-->
>     </div>
>
> becomes something like this
>
>     <div id='wikileft'>
>     <!--[if lt IE 8 ]><td valign='top'><![endif]-->
>       <!--wiki:{$Group}.SideBar {$SiteGroup}.SideBar-->
>     <!--[if lt IE 8 ]></td><![endif]-->
>     </div>

MSIE<8 will see this exact markup as invalid, ie. div tags in the space  
between the <table>, <tr> and <td> tags. It will probably display fine  
though, or it can definitely be made valid with some tweaking.

But will this still be in line of the goals of the original skin? IIRC  
simple and easy to study and modify by a novice administrator?

Recalling from previous discussions with Pm and the community, probably the  
least bad solution would be to add the (previous simpler) tableless skin  
with a different name. Keep the current default skin named "pmwiki". Add in  
the sample-config.php the two skins so people can select the one which they  
want. Not force a change to existing websites which upgrade.

Petko