- From: Ralph & Paula Hightower <lynmax@netside.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 16:28:35 -0400
- To: <www-html-editor@w3.org>
I wish the W3C to consider WIDTH=percentage% as part of the TH and TD definition for HTML 4.0. I think that specifying the number of pixels violates the principal of HTML being "device independent". How are HTML authors supposed to know that web readers have their monitors set for 640x480, 800x600, 1024x800, or a WebTV (I don't know the number of pixels for that). I created a page http://www.netside.com/~lynmax/Tables.html to demonstrate why I think percentages are better than specifying hardware definitions. With Microsoft Internet Explorer, the TABLE WIDTH=90% tables with TD WIDTH=50% look slightly off. With Netscape Navigator, the percentage columns look right Please consider this for the next revision of HTML 4.0 Thank you, Ralph Hightower -- Ralph & Paula Hightower Chapin, SC mailto: lynmax@netside.com http://www.netside.com/~lynmax Senders of unsolicited email (MLM, pyramids, chain letters, etc.) agree to the following terms: 1) Assessed a maintenance fee of USD$500 2) Agree to have their email address and domain owners published on http://www.netside.com/~lynmax/SpamList.html
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