Tables in Virsitility 4
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- jpcook
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Help me here folks.
I spent a week looking and reading about different templates. Finally settled on Versitility 4.
It appears to have everything but the kitchen sink. I could never find anything that said it was using tables or I would not have purchased the member ship. I'm alergic to tables. I have a feeling that I have sinned if I use a table. Tables are what you use for a table not for layout. Tables are evil.
I expected that a new template from the Rocket Theme crew would be pure and not use tables.
Some one help me understand if I'm off base, nuts or just need enlightening.
Thanks
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- JEM
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www.rockettheme.com/joomla-templates/versatility4
* Unbelievable 45 Module Positions
* RokNewsRotator article slideshow
* Integrated multi-position tabbed modules
* CSS Based Tableless Design
* 10 Unique preset color styles built-in
* Up to a 7 column layout configuration
* 3 Built-in Menu Systems
* Wide variety of Typography Styles
* Source Adobe PNG Source Files Included
* W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS Valid
Am I missing something, the template itself is tableless, what are you referring to? - Thanks,
jim
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- Andy Miller
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The template itself does not use tables, just look in the template's index.php. However, Joomla has always used tables in it's output, and that is what your seeing. In Joomla 1.5 we now have the ability to override the Joomla core output, and now that we are doing 1.5 only templates we can put the time/effort into making that happen. Mixxmag is our first 1.5 only template and we used modified versions of the content overrides from the beeze template (no tables), so for the first time we have been able to actually have a content page in joomla without a table.
Ok, that all said, tables are not evil. They are a perfectly valid and useful part of the HTML spec. Tables have been used in RT templates in the past because they are more robust across all browsers for certain things. For example, we used to use tables extensively for our columns. Other 3rd party extensions didn't have proper css coding and would commonly break any pure CSS layout we did, tables were the only way to provide collapsable module positions AND not break at the first errant extension. Over-use of tables is bad, there's no denying that they are heavy, not helpful semantically, etc. But a judicious use of tables, can be a good thing. When it takes more hacks and workarounds to get a table-less design to work, you need to step back and say, maybe a table would of been cleaner and better.
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