2009/3/5 HÃ¥kon Wium Lie <howcome(a)opera.com>om>:
I think it's possible -- with some careful
crafting -- to make things
look ok, but not pixel-perfect in legacy browsers. In lynx, the
table-free version looks better than the original one, but IE6/IE7
users outnumber lynx by a some magnitudes.
Mmm. If it looks good in Lynx, it's probably readable by screenreaders.
If it can be made to work well enough in IE6/7, and still make simpler
and better markup for others, then that'll be a win.
One problem is that editors (who write the templates) can write table
markup, but can't write CSS. So (a) all CSS would need to be
prewritten (b) it'd need to be loaded on all pages in the wiki. This
is a constraint in MediaWiki itself.
It's annoying that we can't presume HTML5-era browsers. But, of
course, we can't.
- d.