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Re: Well done on new devel pages



On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 05:07:21PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> That's part of the problem, instead of using HTML to what it was
> designed for, and put the fancy formatting into CSS, you try to
> simulate it by doing it in HTML with tables and stuff. Yes, tables are
> perfectly valid HTML, but what is on the devel page *isn't* a table
> logically, and because of that, IMHO it shouldn't really be a table in
> the HTML code.

On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 07:41:47PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> Both CSS and HTML is made to degrade gracefully, that is, if somebody
> uses a browser without CSS support, he'll still see the content, but
> it won't look the way the web page's author intended.

Yeah, but it has to look at least decently. IME one spends less time
adjusting nested tables to work across browsers than adjusting CSS and the
CSS-less stuff to work across browsers. If someone can prove me wrong,
please, feel free :)

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