- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:30:53 +0200
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:20:40 +0200, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote: > align="" is presentational; I didn't say the contrary. And all styling > has an influence on usability, I'm not contesting that. But some style > information is more tied to the content than other, and some style > information should be known even when CSS is not available because *not > having that information* makes the document less readable. > > Sometime, presentational information is needed to display a document > correctly, and in those few cases where the presentation is tied to the > content, I think it belongs in the markup. The align attribute, when > used on table cells, covers one of those cases. I still disagree. It only seems a benefit for visual documents and even there the user agent could optimize display when CSS is not supported or turned off by running some specific algorithm. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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