On 03/16/2011 06:13 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
Bobby Jack wrote:
It's just a shame that some of the big players (<cough> google, facebook)
are so resolute in their old, bad habits, that the W3C now feels under
pressure
to legitimise those habits.
Well, well, there's a surprise : Google use tables for layout,
and the editor of the HTML 5 specification works for ...
Ian Hickson, BSc
Employment History
Google Standards Development 2005-present
Clearly no connection.
Your accusation is unfounded. The editor has gone on the record many
times that he strongly disagrees with this decision. See, for example,
[1] and [2]. The proposal to keep disallowing layout tables was mainly
written by Ian Hickson and Tab Atkins (Google). However, the working
group chairs (Sam Ruby, IBM; Paul Cotton, Microsoft and Maciej
Stachowiak, Apple) apparently believe the HTML Working Group want layout
tables to be allowed.
I hope this clarifies matters.
Ms2ger
[1] http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20110310#l-992
[2] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10963#c2
[3]
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/index.php?title=ChangeProposals/NoLayoutTable&action=history
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