[Pmwiki-users] CSS layout in pmwiki-0.6

[Reimer Behrends]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:41:14PM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
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> Anyway, that's pretty much where things sit for now.  All comments,
> feedback, and suggestions are *greatly* welcomed.

Hmm, I rather like the way the functionality is accessed from PHP, which
reflects the spatial structure nicely, but I see a few accessibility/
usability problems with the actual HTML in its current form.

* Blind readers will curse the layout. Common screenreaders will walk
  them through no less than three tables (announcing rows and columns
  along the way) plus any webmenu along the left before they get to
  the actual content (I'm assuming here that the header information
  has already been minimized). Especially because the tables seem to
  be generated even when all but one cell is blank.

* The tables can only be controlled by CSS, not in HTML. First of all,
  that means that the layout may look rather odd when you have a browser
  that doesn't use CSS (or can't use it), such as links or w3m. Second,
  table cells may appear broader or narrower depending on content when
  there is no explicit width provided (which happens, again, if CSS
  is ignored), meaning that the location of the content jumps around
  from page to page.

This is not meant to distract from the overall concept, which I rather
like. But in an ideal world there would be a way to address the above
issues, too.

			Reimer Behrends