Table-less design

[RayYates]

Recomendation:

It seems to me all of the divs floats and css just to make the basket table seems silly. The basket display is after all "tabular data". The point of using all the divs and css is to use fewer tables in the design rather than make the design table-less.

IMO this should be implimented as a valid XHTML / XML formatted table. For example:

<table id="basket">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>headers</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
loop
<tr>
<td>cell data</td>
</tr>
/loop
</tbody>

<tfoot>
loop
<tr>
<td>items</td>
</tr>
/loop
<tr>
<td>totals</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>

This makes the flow more logical, the css much simpler and less prone to browser problems, and I believe it will be far more intuitive for the end users.

#basket {
}
#basket th {
}
#basket td {
}
#basket tfoot td {
}

[wcw]

Re: Table-less design

I would agree with this. For the store owner, making a simple change to add a column (eg thumbnail) into the table-less page is going to be a monumental task.

[Dave Slifka]

Re: Table-less design

I don't disagree with what you are saying Ray. My goal was to make a table-less design but, given the dynamic requirements of a store, keeping tables for the tabular data probably makes sense.

[wcw]

Re: Table-less design

Let's hope the voice of reason prevails.