- From: Peter Vince <peter_vince@yahoo.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:54:48 -0500 (EST)
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
- Cc: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
Hello Richard, > On my knees, I beg you, > with tears in my eyes, I *implore* you, > > PLEASE don't do that! Ha ha! I sympathise with your viewpoint, as I, too, have found that the various combinations of different platform and browser give different results. The trouble is, tables do more or less exactly the sort of layout that I often want. And we are still sufferring from HTML having been pathetic in its early incarnations in terms of layout. You say that HTML isn't DTP - so it would appear, but I think that that is what we really want, so we still have to resort to tricks to get the lumbering old HTML to produce the required layout. It does seem a huge shame that the manufacturers can't get together and agree on some standards - screen dots-per-inch for example. However, that wouldn't cope with your other well explained problems of variable width windows or paper sizes, I quite agree. That said, I would love to "do it properly" - but don't know how. I am slowly converting to CSS, and TIDY has been a huge help in that respect by automatically converting some of my inline <FONT> tags and so on. Do you have any recommendations on how to emulate the layout functions otherwise provided by tables, but with CSS? Or perhaps you know of a good web site that talks about it with some easy examples? Many thanks, Peter PS You suggested using a 1 pixel transparent GIF to force Netscape to colour the background of a cell - I use an "nbsp", as this saves the HTTP overhead of yet another file to download, and still renders correctly if the user has images turned off. ===== Work: Peter_Vince@yahoo.co.uk Home: Barney.Wol@noctua.demon.co.uk Web: http://www.noctua.demon.co.uk/ PGP id = 0x332B72C0 PGP fp: 3535 9AD9 C0EA 3606 0DE4 3811 422E 10B4 332B 72C0 ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
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