--On 14 May 2001 16:16 +0100 Iris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> tables
> _should not_ be used for layout (although this is not realistic until
> all browsers become standard-compliant) only for truly tabular
> information.
What is "truly tabular information"?
Is not part of the use of tabulating data that it is presented in a way in
which it is easier to contextualise each datum? Or put slightly
differently, the presentation articulates the data.
Each datum is at the instersection of the row and column headers in a
visual sense, but there is no need for it to be represented like this. I
suspect that in XML it could well be coded rather differently - ie at each
data point.
So tabulation is a method of presenting a prior logical relationship.
Back to earth and it seems quite consistent to use tables for other
presentational gambits too. Whether that's desirable or not is a rather
different issue.
I think Sebastian's notion of HTML being output versus input is
interesting. What exists between input and output?
Duncan
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