- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 16:52:57 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 7:03p -0400 05/30/97, Dave Raggett wrote:
>
> It was not part of HTML 3.2 for the simple reason it didn't work
> across a wide range of browsers as of early 1996.
What does "didn't work" mean exactly? Didn't work perfectly or not at all?
> Note that the browser can automatically work out how wide columns
> need to be based upon their content.
Which can be a curse as well as a blessing:
Feature | Brand X | Brand Y |
----------+----------------+----------------+ <--Balanced presentation
Widgets | None | Caters to an | thanks to <TD WIDTH="nn%">
| | effluvium |
----------+----------------+----------------+
Feature | Brand X | Brand Y |
---------+---------+------------------------+ <--Skewed
Widgets | None | Caters to an effluvium |
| | |
---------+---------+------------------------+
__________________________________________________________________________
Walter Ian Kaye <boo_at_best*com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript,
Mountain View, CA ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML
http://www.natural-innovations.com/ Musician - Guitarist, Songwriter
Received on Friday, 30 May 1997 20:18:38 UTC