- From: Abigail <abigail@tungsten.gn.iaf.nl>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 18:02:06 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Walter Ian Kaye wrote: ++ ++ At 5:09a 05/11/96, Abigail wrote: ++ >Most of the time, <table> is just used to layout the web page. This ++ >works quite well when using a graphical browser. However, if the ++ >user (= reader) does something the developer (= author) has never ++ >dreamed off (say, using a sound browser), things can lead to sillyness. ++ ><table>s were designed for tabular data. If they are misused to force ++ >a graphical layout, one limits his/her audience. ++ ++ If "<table>s were designed for tabular data", then ROWSPAN and COLSPAN ++ would not be allowed. These attributes are in direct contradiction to ++ your view of what is "appropriate" for <table>s. Do you favor deprecation ++ of these attributes? I fail to see why rowspan and colspan contradict that tables are for tabular data. The first example of the latest table draft seems perfectly valid to me. Abigail
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