Re: Layout versus data tables proposal for null summary attribute

We just can't ban tables for layout no matter how much we'd like to. The 
spec permits them.

> 2.0), one should abide to the specifications; if we now look at the HTML
> 4.01 spec for tables [17]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html we
> note that "Tables should not be used purely as a means to layout
> document content [...] authors should use style sheets to control layout
> rather than tables."

"Should not" does not mean "must not," sadly.

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Received on Saturday, 28 August 2004 18:13:11 UTC