NYCPHP Meetup

[Rolan Yang]

For the past 3 days, I have treaded through css hell converting a site 
from nested tables to non-table css. There were issues with background 
colors not showing through, columns not lining up, padding and margins 
on boxes are handled differently between IE and Firefox and various DTD 
types, quirks mode vs nonquirks??, phantom rows appearing from nested 
div's with multiple floats in IE, and a myriad number of other browser 
incompatibilities/bugs.

All this was a result of some twisted desire to make table rows 
drag+drop resortable with dom/javascript magic.

After all the CSS quirks were addressed, I discovered that the 
scriptaculous drag+drop functions would slow down or  lock up the 
browser when there were too many elements to sortable. Ugh. Now, I'm 
working on writing my own leaner drag and drop script which will 
hopefully run more quickly. They say what doesn't kill you makes you 
stronger. I'm not sure if I am any stronger, but I did lose a few 
handfuls of hair in the process.

~Rolan


Kenneth Downs wrote:
> OK, so let's say I'm trying to make an honest go of it and resist the 
> urge to use TABLEs for non-tabular data.
>
> So how do I handle this one?
>