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Re: amaya formatting ?

From: <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 11:53:25 +0100
Message-Id: <199903081053.LAA12981@tahiti.inrialpes.fr>
To: Corne Beerse <beerse@ats.nld.alcatel.nl>
cc: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, tony mollica <tmollica@silcom.com>, www-amaya@w3.org
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 08 Mar 1999 09:44:52 +0100."
             <36E38E04.76B1F46@ats.nld.alcatel.nl> 
> Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> > 
> > There isn't a really good way to do this in HTML.
> > 
> > The trick that people use is to make a table, and use centred alignment in
> > each of the cells. The cells then auto-size in many browsers, which
> > provides even spacing. But using tables for layout in this way is not
> > realy what they were meant for, and can raise accessibility problems. (For
> > a fuller discussion see
> 
> Then, Why is it used in the Amaya startup page? Or is this your personal
> statement?

It's not forbidden to create a table of links or a table of icons in any
HTML document :-)

  Irene.
Received on Monday, 8 March 1999 05:53:32 UTC

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