- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 09:37:31 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Cc: "koch@w3development.de" <koch@w3development.de>, "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Jens Meiert wrote: >> >> 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). If you read the whole of my post, you'll see that I make _exactly this point_ in the immediately following paragraph: >> 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/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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