On 21/10/2005, at 22:35, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
Tables have always been a complete bitch in rendering HTML. Part
of the problem is that it is easy to inconsistently overspecify a
table (e.g., the whole table must have width 3in but there are
only two columns each of which must have width 2 in), and you have
to experiment with, say, Internet Explorer, to see how it resolves
the problem.
one would think that knuth had solved it for τεχ. any of it
applicable to html?
This is specified in CSS2, clearly and unambiguously. If the sum of
columns' widths is less than the table's width, one must increase the
column widths so that they fill the tables width. You don't have to
experiment with implementations to comply to the specification.
Unless you have to deal with multipage tables, formatting table, even
with auto-layout, is a relatively easy task.
And you don't need Knuth and TEX for that.
David
