- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 19:38:24 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 4:55p -0400 07/10/97, Jim Wise wrote:
>
> Sure, but counting on all browsers choosing the same visual rendering as
> yours (or even _having_ a visual rendering) is counter to the purpose of
> HTML. If you are preparing a document to be viewed only on your
> particular machine, OS, and browser, you will be better served by a
> format such as PDF or Microsloth Word, which are not portable, but
> promise that the viewer will see what you are seeing.
No, they promise that the user will be severely inconvenienced (which you
would probably agree with, since you say "Microsloth"...).
> Sure, just like not everyone uses a browser which draws tables the same
> way yours does. The difference is that a correctly prepared document
> which uses CSS will work in the absence of CSS. Your method does not
> have this fallback.
My tables come out just fine in Lynx 2.5 -- thank Fote I guess? <G>
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