Date: February 24th, 2002 04:39 pm (UTC)From:(Anonymous)
Technically speaking, whenever you use table tags to mean anything other than to arrange tabular data, you are lying, just as all those p tags used to adjust vertical spacing (i.e., that are not actually paragraphs) are lies. The problem is that older web browsers require is to lie through our teeth to get the visual results we want -- because they do not lay out paragraphs the way we want, or don t have a tag for ‘this is a displayed equation’, we have had to fudge things by ‘misusing’ HTML tags.
XML + CSS in principle allow us to code up documents with a logical structure that correctly expresses the intention of the document consydered as pure information, while at the same time presenting it in a way that we think is pretty. The main point of discussion is whether we can start to ignore the way it is presented in older browsers that do not grok CSS.
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Date: February 24th, 2002 04:39 pm (UTC)From: (Anonymous)tabletags to mean anything other than to arrange tabular data, you are lying, just as all thoseptags used to adjust vertical spacing (i.e., that are not actually paragraphs) are lies. The problem is that older web browsers require is to lie through our teeth to get the visual results we want -- because they do not lay out paragraphs the way we want, or don t have a tag for ‘this is a displayed equation’, we have had to fudge things by ‘misusing’ HTML tags.XML + CSS in principle allow us to code up documents with a logical structure that correctly expresses the intention of the document consydered as pure information, while at the same time presenting it in a way that we think is pretty. The main point of discussion is whether we can start to ignore the way it is presented in older browsers that do not grok CSS.