[TYPO3-content-rendering] No more inline styles in css_styled_content / Do we care about IE7

[Patrick Broens]

Hi,

Some of you might have heard of the BLE project [1]. The project is
called Incubator on Forge [2] and part of it is the Accessibility
project [3].

The reason why I want your attention is the following:

One of the demands of this project is to get rid of all inline styles
produced by the TYPO3 core. Css_styled_content is one to blaim in this
case.

Except for a few small issues, inline styles are especially used in
image blocks, with the content elements Images and Text & Images. The
reason for this was that long captions exceed the width of the image. To
preserve this, the width was added. Externalizing the width to a dynamic
stylesheet is no option. We will end up with a huge amount of those with
big websites with a lot of images on each page.

Therefor I've searched for a solution, which does not need any width
declaration. There are two ways to solve this:
* Using CSS declaration: display: table-caption;
* Using tables with the <caption> tag, only when the caption is needed

With both options there are obstacles, especially related to IE6 and
IE7. Both don't know the CSS declaration, which makes this option not
usable. The table <caption> is recognized by both, but (yes of course
there is a but) the caption is always displayed at the top of the image
in these two browsers. For other browsers, including IE8+, I use the CSS
declaration caption-side: bottom; which is a CSS2.1 property.

In 4.7, where this is targeted, we still need to support IE7.

So here comes the question ;-)
What's your opinion about this visual (not functional) drawback for IE7?

Cheers

Patrick


[1]
http://news.typo3.org/news/article/typo3-receives-german-governmental-funding-for-accessibility-and-usability-project/
[2] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-incubator
[3] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-accessibility