Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/22/06 22:30

dorayme wrote:
> In article <6ff0b$4513efa3$40cba77e$19458@NAXS.COM>,
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
>
>> Crap, so your point is?
>>
>> Yes there are loads of examples of badly designed websites out
>> there...still doesn't make it a valid application for tables. Unlike
>> modern politics, repetition does not make a falsehood true.
>
> Perhaps his point is this: if you want to put a huge picture for
> some reason or other on a website page, tables is the only
> possible way to go.

Don't agree with that one

> Or it is the best way to go.

Nor that
> Or it is a
> convenient and easy way to go because machine algorithms can
> splice up a big pic in a table easier than any other way?
>

With tables it can alway be a problem with "some" browsers at getting a
seamless splice. This is where DIVs and absolute positioning (which I
personally try to avoid) can work well and defining classes for your x &
y offset can make it easy to keep track of the grid.

DIV.mosaic IMG { display: block; position: absolute; }

..c1 { left: 0px; }
..c2 { left: 100px; }
..c3 { left: 200px; }

..r1 { top: 0px; }
..r2 { top: 0px; }
..r3 { top: 0px; }

<div class="mosaic">
<img src="c1r1.jpg" alt="" class="c1 r1" width="100" height="100">
<img src="c2r1.jpg" alt="" class="c2 r1" width="100" height="100">
<img src="c3r1.jpg" alt="" class="c3 r1" width="100" height="100">
....

Looks simple and ease to manage to me...

> You are a wily shark Jonathan and this innocent might need some
> help, some leads of what to splutter in reply to you.

Aw, been a little cranky today I guess. Must be in curmudgeon-mode.

>
> Let us not go into why someone might want as a rarity to put a
> big pic on a website, you would be on very shaky ground to say
> that there never could be a good reason, that it never should be
> done. It could be for fun, for information, to send a mighty
> impressive ransom note, to do an electronic Hieronymus Bosch (The
> Garden of Earthly delights) and then some, and a million other
> reasons that might emerge in the next 5 million years.

Not debating the 'wallpaper' just the method of hanging the baby!


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Jonathan
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