- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:24:26 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
At 3:43 AM +0000 12/9/02, Ian Hickson wrote: >Also, if you are using the "width" attribute it implies that your use of >tables is presentational, which is a no-no in XHTML 1.1 (and XHTML 1.0 and >HTML 4.x, for that matter). Yes, that's fairly accurate. Unfortunately using CSS to get the same effect is pretty much impossible in the current web browser base. I suppose I could use frames but that would be out of the frying pan into the fire. >Why aren't you using HTML 3.2? In practice, I do. I'm just experimenting to see if it's possible to move on. The short answer seems to be no, it isn't; and it doesn't seem likely to be for years to come. XHTML might have some use beyond the traditional browser, but it's not a usable solution for web sites today. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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