- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:39:53 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 9:15a -0700 07/10/97, Matthew D. P. K. Lanier wrote:
>
> 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.
I agree! I make fancy nested tables with background cell colors, but these
same pages of mine are fully functional and legible in Lynx 2.5. I use ALT
attributes on my images, too. I care about *all* visitors to my site.
> if you try to convert a table-based page to hdml, it won't be pretty.
Heh, just about *every* page, table or not, would be difficult to convert
to HDML; it's a completely different paradigm (excuse the buzzword).
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Walter Ian Kaye <boo_at_best*com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript,
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Received on Thursday, 10 July 1997 13:43:23 UTC