wwwtesting: Strange forces at work?

[Andreas Pour]

Hi,

Isn't it possible to have the header and footer depend on the browser?  I mean
make header.inc something like (the "preg" call would not some more work on the
subject):

<?php
  function useTables()
  {
    // returns true if to use tables, false for CSS support
    // make it a function so pages can use it internally as well
    return ((strpos($GLOBALS["HTTP_USER_AGENT"], "Mozilla/4.") > 0) &&
            !preg_match("@MSIE|Konq at i", $GLOBALS["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]));
  }

  if (useTables())
  {
    include("header_tables.inc");
  }
  else
  {
    include("header_css.inc");
  }
?>

Just a thought,

Dre


Christoph Cullmann wrote:
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> Hi,
> have a question about the WAI stuff: As the current page is not viewable with
> NS 4 at all, not even in parts, I and Dirk and some other played with the
> thought of using tables again :/ Yeah, it is no CSS and yeah, it is not nice,
> but he, we can simply drop the tables in a year or 2 again with nearly zero
> work (as they will be only in header.inc and footer.inc) and we would gain NS
> 4 support and get rid of same display probs in other browsers (for example IE
> 6 still has probs, at least I I try from work). But before I think much more
> about the tables stuff, will it break WAI conformance ? And if yes, why ?
> Even WAI homepages uses tables to layout.
> 
> cu
> Christoph