I'm afraid the link below proves quite the opposite: in IE6 there is
always a gap at the right hand side, even when the row has wrapped
around, which it does at random widths. Clearly a rounding error is
causing problems, which is exactly what most of us expected.
Incidentally, I have yet to
How many times have I bit my tongue as Felix has blurted out his irrational
ideas. Sorry to be negative, but this is just wrong.
Semantic value has nothing to do with your spreadsheets.
A list of letters in the alphabet is a list. It's not a table unless you are
trying to make a relationship
Ted Drake wrote:
For anyone that just joined this list. If Felix was starting to sound
reasonable, please take some time to read Eric Meyer, the W3C, Zeldman.com,
simplebits.com, and many other sites that accurately describe semantic
markup.
and, whilst you're reading Zeldman, take note of the
(and, says I, if it does a job which is either difficult or clumsy
otherwise).
No. Just because something is difficult doesn't mean you should resort to
using something semantically incorrect. If everyone did that then there
wouldn't be need for web standards in the first place (joke ;)).
I'm the first one to fight for semantic code, but I thought I'd play devils
advocate this morning.
You can be pragmatic about such things (using tables) - for instance from
Gaspar's example, (0.4%*2)*26 + (26*3%) = 98.8% - which isn't 100%, thereby
illustrating some of the limitations of CSS.
