Re: minutes posted

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 " ". &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?
>  
>  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
>  
>  
>  
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>--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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