- From: T. Joseph W. Lazio <lazio@spacenet.tn.cornell.edu>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 13:50:19 -0400
- To: boo@best.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
>>>>> "WIK" == Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com> writes: WIK> At 3:05p +0200 06/03/96, Abigail wrote: >> Benjamin Franz wrote: >>> >> [ About allowing <ING> inside <PRE> ] >> >>> The whole issue is rapidly becoming irrelevant anyway since the >>> use of images in PRE is a hack to work around the lack of deployed >>> tables - a situation that has all but disappeared now as even AOL >>> is rolling out a table capable browser - leaving Lynx as the only >>> browser with any significant share that _cannot_ do tables. Tables >>> are *much* superior in achieving page layout control in general. >> TeX and PostScript are even better. WIK> But they require separate, huge programs (seen Ghostscript or WIK> Acrobat?) for rendering. Probably part of Abigail's point. To do real page layout is difficult and (often) requires huge programs. WIK> Having this in HTML saves a lot of overhead and time, and is WIK> inline. What I do on my "Directory of Files" page would be quite WIK> ridiculous to do in PDF! In any case, here's another consideration regarding <IMG> in <PRE>. Many of the current browsers stick in an image icon when running with image-loading turned off, *even* if the author has specified ALT text. -- Joseph
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