- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 23:51:05 +0200 (MET)
- To: "'Liam Quinn'" <liam@htmlhelp.com>, "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Oct 7, 2:21pm, Chris Wilson (PSD) wrote: > I do not believe this is the correct model for tables - unfortunately, I > wasn't there when Netscape designed this "original web design" and > promoted the use of tables. To clarify, Netscape did not invent tables. Tables in HTML were pioneered by Dave Raggett and demonstrated as a proof of concept in the Arena browser which was the first HTML browser to implement tables (also the first to implement CSS as it happens). I just wanted to make sure newer readers didn't read more into "original web design" than they should. > More generally, the design of HTML tables > implementations did not grow out of a consortium of interested parties, > and so there are some serious quirks. (Incidentally, to give proper > credit - NCSA shipped the first implementation of tables in HTML in > Windows Mosaic.) Really? Before Arena? -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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