[ZWeb] nzo: just for inspiration
Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Sat, 22 Mar 2003 08:53:19 -0500
> No, please stay with tables. Tables behave better when they are
> rendered smaller than the designer expected. Visit the following URL
> with Mozilla and reduce the width of your browser window to see how CSS
> tables cause unexpected text overlapping. With real tables, this can't
> happen.
>
> http://www.alistapart.com/stories/practicalcss/
>
> There may be a way to avoid this bug, but apparently a lot of people
> don't know how to solve it. Meanwhile, real tables fit the bill quite
> nicely. :-)
Ah, so that explains the overlapping text in the Zope3 UI. I *hate*
that! I suggest that the Zope3 UI team either finds away to avoid
this, *or* switches back to tables. The overlaps look just too stupid
(and they sure make a casual observer think we don't know shit about
web design).
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)