- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:56:32 -0500
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, thatch@us.ibm.com
- Cc: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 11:41 AM 10/29/99 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >using to get table borders to show up is a hack to solve a particular >implementation bug in layout/presentation. Although this doesn't contravene >any specification that I can think of, it should not be necessary. > >So far as I know there is no other way to solve the particular bug. > X-URL: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-connolly-text-html-01.txt Internet-Draft D. Connolly World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Category: Informational L. Masinter Xerox Corporation draft-connolly-text-html-01.txt October 13, 1999 Obsoletes: RFC 1866, RFC 2070, RFC 1980, RFC 1867, RFC 1942 The 'text/html' Media Type [...] Interoperability considerations: [...] Due to the long and distributed development of HTML, current practice on the Internet includes a wide variety of HTML variants. Implementors of text/html interpreters must be prepared to be "bug-compatible" with popular browsers in order to work with many HTML documents available the Internet. >Charles McCN > >On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 thatch@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > > I noticed this resolution in the minutes: > > Resolved: shouldn't use " ".   just another form of white space. > " " because ignored.   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   in empty table cells to get the borders to show up. Is there > another way? > > Jim Thatcher > IBM Special Needs Systems > www.ibm.com/sns > HPR Documentation page: http://www.austin.ibm.com/sns/hprdoc.html > thatch@us.ibm.com > (512)838-0432 > > > Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org> on 10/28/99 05:09:11 PM > > To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org > cc: > Subject: minutes posted > > > > > minutes from today's call are available at: > http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/meetings/19991028.html > > as usual, if you see a correction that needs to be made, let me know. > > --wendy > > > > > >--Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org >phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI >MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA >
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