- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:59:16 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Christian Smith" <csmith@barebones.com>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
* "Christian Smith" <csmith@barebones.com> wrote: | > I want to know, why the border attribut for the element table is still defined | > in the table module for XHTML. The HTML 4.01 recommendation [1] says: | > | > [...] | > This attributes specifies the width (in pixels only) of the frame around | > a table | > [...] | > | > so for me this is a presentational attribut and should be removed from | > (X)HTML. The presentational effect can be achieved with the CSS border | > property. | > | > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#adef-border-TABLE | | Because XHTML 1.0 is only the XMLized version of HTML 4.0 frameset, | transitional and strict. It has neither more nor less presentational bagage | than HTML 4.0. Oh, did i refer to XHTML 1.0? It's included in the HTML 4.01 Strict DTD and its included in http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/xhtml_modules.html#s_tablemodule and therefor in _XHTML 1.1_ and i want to know why. regards, -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://www.bjoernsworld.de
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