> Al Sparber > > From: "Christian Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Please, no more silly statements like that. This is the Web Standards > Group. To take it a step further, the html coding can never be table > based. That's hacking, not coding. > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > I hope you are joking.
Al, maybe Christian's wording was a bit brusque, but looking at the facts: a) the standard clearly states "Tables should not be used purely as a means to layout document content" http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html - this makes the use of tables for layout pretty much a practice contrary to the standard (I have been known to call it a "perversion of the standard", myself) b) this list is for the Web Standards Group True, from a pragmatic (as in "need to support older browsers") point of view table based layouts are sometimes a necessary evil, but from a standards point of view Christian is right, IMHO. P ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ________________________________ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
