You know what would make some code monkey a LOT of money and fame?
An automatic "tables to CSS' converter that works really well.
Draw what you want in tables without thinking about it, then push a button and get CSS.
I'd buy it. And use it. And after I used it I'd keep using CSS.
Ian
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Tables to CSS converter
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mcanerin
, Feb 03 2005 01:51 AM
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Posted 03 February 2005 - 01:51 AM
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Posted 03 February 2005 - 01:58 AM
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You know what would make some code monkey a LOT of money and fame?
An automatic "tables to CSS' converter that works really well.
An automatic "tables to CSS' converter that works really well.
yep, that sure would make someone a lot of money. Then everyone who took a dreamweaver class in college could market themselves as a cutting edge web standards designer...I wonder what kind of reaction that would get...
anyway, that would be an awesome money making program. probably could happen sometime when broswers all get on the same page.
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Posted 03 February 2005 - 09:36 AM
Ian,
What do you mean by "works really well"? If it converts a table to CSS then it could be argued that it "works really well". What kind(s) of feature(s) would you be looking for?
Phil
QUOTE(mcanerin @ Feb 3 2005, 02:51 AM)
An automatic "tables to CSS' converter that works really well.
What do you mean by "works really well"? If it converts a table to CSS then it could be argued that it "works really well". What kind(s) of feature(s) would you be looking for?
Phil
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Posted 03 February 2005 - 10:15 AM
QUOTE(Googlewhacked @ Feb 3 2005, 10:36 AM)
Ian,
What do you mean by "works really well"? If it converts a table to CSS then it could be argued that it "works really well". What kind(s) of feature(s) would you be looking for?
Phil
What do you mean by "works really well"? If it converts a table to CSS then it could be argued that it "works really well". What kind(s) of feature(s) would you be looking for?
Phil
I took the comment to mean that it wrote nice, clean, W3C compliant CSS, etc etc
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Posted 03 February 2005 - 10:54 AM
Sorry, I guess I should have been clearer. It sounded (to me, anyway) like there were certain expected features & I was wondering what he had in mind. I was assuming clean, compliant CSS was a prerequesite.
Here are some of the possible "features" that spring to mind:
1) nested table conversion
2) reuse of existing CSS (by detecting style="", class="", id="", blindly scanning an attached CSS file, etc)
Anyone else want to contribute to this wishlist?
Phil
Here are some of the possible "features" that spring to mind:
1) nested table conversion
2) reuse of existing CSS (by detecting style="", class="", id="", blindly scanning an attached CSS file, etc)
Anyone else want to contribute to this wishlist?
Phil
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Posted 04 February 2005 - 12:28 PM
Regarding my "works really well" comment in the Tables to CSS wish, I was referring to the ability to deal with some of the more complex table layouts we see today.
For example, it took me a fair amount of tweaking to get 3 column layout in CSS that worked - and it still acts strangely sometimes. You add things like nested tables and so forth and a CSS conversion starts getting messy.
I imagine the best way to deal with it would be to look at the final effect and then use a CSS solution that duplicates it, rather than trying to deal with it on a line-by-line basis.
This would be the kind of tool I'd like to see the SMA-NA sponsor and provide as a service to members - although tabled layout works "ok" for SEO, I would prefer to encourage SEO's to use CSS where practical for their visitors. That being the case, perhaps it's something we could ask the members if they want to support it.
Ian
For example, it took me a fair amount of tweaking to get 3 column layout in CSS that worked - and it still acts strangely sometimes. You add things like nested tables and so forth and a CSS conversion starts getting messy.
I imagine the best way to deal with it would be to look at the final effect and then use a CSS solution that duplicates it, rather than trying to deal with it on a line-by-line basis.
This would be the kind of tool I'd like to see the SMA-NA sponsor and provide as a service to members - although tabled layout works "ok" for SEO, I would prefer to encourage SEO's to use CSS where practical for their visitors. That being the case, perhaps it's something we could ask the members if they want to support it.
Ian
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