- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 05:49:50 -0400 ()
- To: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
- cc: www-html@w3.org, lehors@w3.org
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Jordan Reiter wrote: > I don't think that the indexes are well implemented. Instead of a > listing containing start tag (which is almost always required > anyway), end tag (which is generally easy to figure out on your > own) and Empty (which isn't very useful), I think a very brief > description as well as a list of (somewhat) unique attributes > would be more useful (this way, it would be possible to look at > this page for quick info without having to look through the specs > for information). > For example: > > tag Description Attributes > | P | Paragraph | ALIGN > | | | > |IMG| Image | ALIGN, SRC, HEIGHT, WIDTH, > | | | HSPACE, VSPACE > ... > > Also, I question the table layout itself. While presenting > information in this way may be easiest to format, very long tables > may cause problems for some browsers. Even after the page was > loaded in my cache, it still took several seconds for the entire > table to render, whereas a textual equivalent would have been > instantaneous (and I'm running on a fast computer with lots o' > memory). Thanks for the suggestion. I will see what we can do. It looks like using PRE rather than TABLE is appropriate. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett phone: +44 122 578 2521 (office) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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