From: "Martin Heiden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?
Hi,
on Monday, December 12, 2005 at 15:01 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
wrote:
Sorry, but I have to disagree.
Tables as well as divs, spans etc. are containers. They are both
html
elements. I don't think that any standard has suppressed the table
element from html and in my dictionary, hacking is modifying a
program
in an unauthorized manner. Are tables unauthorized?
Well, I understood it in a very similar way as Christian. If we
speak
about table based layout, we mean layout tables not tables for
tabular
data.
A css driven site may use tables, but for tabular data only.
That's sematically incorrect :-)
Think of the meaning of "should" versus, "must" - actually, your
sentence above has me wondering anew about the true meaning of "may",
as opposed to "might". Tough language, this English. But whether this
is a CSS or a Standards mail list, statements such as "A css driven
site may use tables, but for tabular data only" are simply opinions.
Here is a piece written by an old friend with, what I consider to be,
a first-rate brain:
http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/layout_tables/
Back to your regularly scheduled programming :-)
Al Sparber
PVII
http://www.projectseven.com
"Designing with CSS is sometimes like barreling down a crumbling
mountain road at 90 miles per hour secure in the knowledge that
repairs are scheduled for next Tuesday".
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