2009/3/3 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
Youch, that's messy in IE7. Lovely though it may be, that 30-50% of our audience would not be happy...
Indeed. I emailed Hakon Lie inviting his participation, but noting that dropping even IE6, lovely as that would be, is not a happener in the foreseeable future. We can't presume a world with non-broken graphical browsers. So any CSSing would be required to allow for this, and degrade well in pure text form.
It's a goal well worth trying for. The question is how to get there and if we really can make the markup actually smaller and less confusing.
On another note, wow. I hadn't realised how much stuff was in our infoboxes. The five lines of government I can understand, the two GDPs ditto, but do we really need a quick-reference for "proportion of area which is water", the Gini coefficient, or the side of the road it uses?
Why not? It's incredibly templatable and it's probably of use to *someone*.
- d.