Re: minutes posted

thatch@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> I noticed this resolution in the minutes:
> 
> Resolved: shouldn't use " ". &nbsp just another form of white space.
> " " because ignored. &nbsp because it should not be used for formatting.
> only used to keep pieces of text together (e.g. in WCAG we keep the
> word "priority" and the level together).
> 
> I use &nbsp in empty table cells to get the borders to show up. Is there
> another way?

CSS2 [1] gives you another way:

<BLOCKQUOTE>
The following rule causes borders to be drawn around all cells:

      TABLE { empty-cells: show }
</BLOCKQUOTE>

If you mean "is there another way today" I don't have an
answer right now.

  _ Ian

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#empty-cells

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Received on Thursday, 28 October 1999 21:46:58 UTC