- From: Matthew D. P. K. Lanier <matt@saturn5.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:15:23 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
once upon a time, walter said- > He calls it abuse, Abigail calls it abuse, you call it misuse -- what on > earth is your problem with USING tables? To me, the only abuse of tables > is when authors override scalability (as in <TABLE WIDTH=1024>). i agree that overriding of scalability issues is an abuse of tables, though i must take issue with your concessions to many of the recent uses of tables. i label as abuse any use of html that makes it more difficult for non-gui browsers to fully access the presented information. this can take many forms, from use of tables for purely layout purposes to imagemaps without corresponding textual navigation. call me crazy, but i refuse to support the assumption that the only market out there is graphical. if you try to convert a table-based page to hdml, it won't be pretty. right now, i get around this in one of two ways: 1)browser-negotiate, and do massive ssi's to stuff the content into either a table for gui browsers and a text layout for non, or 2)tell them to submit and get a gui browser. i'm very encouraged that means will be popularly available soon for attractive layouts without sinking your content into a basically proprietary format or bogging down the server with excess ssi's matt lanier matt@lanier.org
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