This whole argument reminds me of something I heard the other day on a
BBS:
May 10, 2001 09:47 from TrebleJunkie
...........This is the World Wide Web, man. You Do What Works (tm), to
hell with how best-practice it may or may not be............
[WWW World Wide Web> msg #55955 (38 remaining)] Read cmd ->
never a truer word was spoken. It's all very well to say you shouldn't
use tables, or you must use this font or that font, or argue that HTML
isn't for page layout, but at the end of the day, You Do What Works.
Kat
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Laura Green wrote:
> At 16:16 14/05/01 +0100, Iris wrote:
> > tables
> > _should not_ be used for layout (although this is not realistic until
> > all browsers become standard-compliant) only for truly tabular
> > information.
>
> I understand and accept the accessibility issue here (though I do not
> practice it myself at present). Interestingly, the homepage of the site
> quoted in your sig is encapsulated in a table....
>
> > Iris Manhold
> > Web Development - DEMOS Project
> > <http://www.demos.ac.uk/>
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