- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:44:00 +0000
- To: Dylan Schiemann <dylans@yahoo.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 22:30, Dylan Schiemann wrote: | --- Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru> wrote: | > TABLEs is evil! We should avoid them, either in | > HTML or in XML. | > DIV/SPAN, with display: block, inline, inline-block, | > is much more clean way | > to do formatting. | > Especially in simple cases, like Jesse exposured. | > See also my testcase. | | Tables are not evil. A table is a valid structure for | describing data that is correlated in two-dimensions. | Lists are a similarly valid structure for | 1-dimensional correlations. 3 and greater dimension | correlations unfortunately are not easily described in | 2-d, so we usually take a cross-section that shows two | variables with all other parameters held constant... | also know as a table. oh, thanks for reminder: lists are evil, too! ;-) IMO table is a *structure* of document, not *data visualization* So, if DOM specs manage tables - it's ok with me You can store tables in XML or where you want. But, for the heaven's sake, why we should take this legace stuff into CSS3? We should not, IMO. | | It is considered bad practice to use tables to layout | a web site, but not to describe table data. Support Agree. XML is a right way to store tables. Than you apply CSS stylesheet on such table, and get *right* layout but display: table-cell, table-row, table should be dropped from specs, IMO. | for tables should not be discouraged because web | develoeprs have resorted to exploiting them when | browser vendors struggled to provide a non-buggy | alternative. There is a valid need for a table data | structure, just as there are needs for lists. | | -Dylan Schiemann | http://www.sitepen.com/ | http://www.dylanschiemann.com/ | | | __________________________________________________ | Do You Yahoo!? | Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. | http://personals.yahoo.com -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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