- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:09:08 +0200 (MEST)
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: koch@w3development.de, www-html@w3.org
> You don't need tables for layout _right now_ as far as the standards go. > You can use HTML4.01 and CSS2 to achieve pretty much all the effects you > can get with layout tables. According to the specification, yes. According to user-agent rendering, (often) no. I don't develop for specifications, I develop for people (by using Web standards). Jens Meiert. > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Jens Meiert wrote: > > > > Maybe XHTML 2 will us enable a 'new beginning' (e.g. not needing layout > > tables anymore) and everything gets better > > You don't need tables for layout _right now_ as far as the standards go. > You can use HTML4.01 and CSS2 to achieve pretty much all the effects you > can get with layout tables. > > The problem isn't the specs. The problem is that UA support is lagging > years behind, and in fact in some cases seems to have stalled (e.g. > development of the Internet Explorer browser on Windows is apparently on > hold until the next release of Windows). Without support in the browsers > used by the majority of Web users, new Web client specifications are not > going to enable any "new beginning"s. > > -- > Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL > "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > -- Jens Meiert Steubenstr. 28 D-26123 Oldenburg Mobil +49 (0)175 78 4146 5 Telefon +49 (0)441 99 86 147 Telefax +49 (0)89 1488 2325 91 Mail <jens@meiert.com> Internet <http://meiert.com>
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