Re: HTML 3.2 and TABLE ALIGN attribute
Arnoud (galactus@htmlhelp.com)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:21:31 +0100
From: galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
To: www-html@www10.w3.org
Subject: Re: HTML 3.2 and TABLE ALIGN attribute
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:21:31 +0100
Message-ID: <bZ95y4uYOZWO089yn@htmlhelp.com>
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In article <199701231043.MAA26484@msa.tte.vtt.fi>,
Markku Savela <msa@msa.tte.vtt.fi> wrote:
> 1) As defined (LEFT, RIGHT, CENTER) the defition is very much useless,
> because those effects can easily achieved by use of DIV (and even
In the current model, TABLE is a block-level element, and so
deserves its own ALIGN attribute. [0]
> with <P ALIGN ..> too, because, IMHO table should never have been
> defined as block element, you should be able to have it inline).
But then it would be possible to have block-level elements inside
a text-level element (for example, H1 is permitted inside TD). This
would confuse the hell out of non-table supporting browsers.
> 2) table ALIGN attribute (and the whole table in general) is much more
> meaningfull, if it is interpreted the same way as the IMG.
Given the current values, what problem is there? If you CENTER a
table, it will come up in the center. If the alignment is left or
right, the text can flow around it.
> The NS treats ALIGN already this way in respect to LEFT/RIGHT (text
> flows around table).
And it's STILL broken for ALIGN=CENTER.
Galactus
[0] This begs the question why block elements like UL or ADDRESS
don't have it...
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> Multimedia Systems, P.O.Box 1203,FIN-02044 VTT,http://www.vtt.fi/tte/staff/msa/
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