- From: Michael Johnson <michaelj@relay.relay.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 15:59:44 +0100
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
Bill O'Donnell writes: >2. Specifying simple relative units allows the user to add columns > more easily. Suppose you had a 3 column table. The first column > is perhaps a narrow "subject" list, and the next two columns are > wider "data" columns. So, you perhaps want the subject column to be > 1/3 the width of each of the data columns. You then specify the > subject column to have relative with of 1, and each other column to > have width 3. Later when you want to add a third data column, all > you have to do is add another column and give it width 3. If you > had set up percentages, you would have to recalculate > and change the widths of all four columns. This becomes painful if > you have dozens or hundreds of columns. Quite right. In fact, though I had forgotten it, this is the way that IBM BookMaster does relative column widths as well. That sounds like the best solution to me. Michael Johnson Relay Technology, Inc.
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