Re: css layout should be symmetrical

Hello Jesse,

On Tuesday, February 19, 2002 you wrote:

[..]

> In summary, in HTML a table is a table, so if you need to use a
> table for layout, do so, but there is no using a table without using
> a table. 

Thanks for the explanation - I understand your position much better
now. But transforming a list of items to a one row table doesn't seem
to imply a huge semantic difference in my eyes, so this technique
could be useful to get graceful degradation.

I agree that just slapping display:table on DIV to get a
shrink-wrapped effect is a hack. It doesn't seem to be a very harmful
one in itself, but as always hacks can come back to haunt you.


Greetings,
 Rijk                            mailto:rijk@iname.com

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