- From: Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn.ulsberg@nrk.no>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:31:07 +0200
- To: "'Jens Meiert'" <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Jens Meiert wrote: > Nice arrogant reply, very constructive. I'm sorry if I seem arrogant; it's not my intention, and I can tell you that I'm not. I see and understand your problems, but I don't agree with your solutions. > Again -- I want my documents available, accessible and > usable for almost all potential users, and sometimes > [...], (layout) tables are (or were) helpful, if not > even necessary Yes, layout tables were necessary some years ago, when most UA's still had v4.0 stamped on them. But today, it isn't, and it's a better solution to get to authors write semantically correct HTML than to make a hack in the HTML spec to get semantically wrong HTML to "work". > But if you're only that pseudo-expert having no practice > at all, testing your markup only in IE 6, you won't > understand. What makes you get that impression of me? > I don't need any specification advocate when this ain't > serving former or current needs. Current needs are based on bad code, and instead of making the bad code work, I think we (as a web authoring community) should make the bad code right. -- Asbjørn Ulsberg -=|=- X-No-Archive: No "He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away"
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