Re: commit: abi (STABLE): more XHTML export work

From: Mark Gilbert (markgilbert@hotpop.com)
Date: Sat Nov 09 2002 - 15:50:18 EST

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On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 09:33, David Chart wrote:
> The second is that it is bad practice to use tables for layout in XHTML.
> Most notably, it confuses reading browsers for the blind. It also makes
> for XHTML code that is difficult to maintain.

There are also a lot of third party tools whose output will be messed up
by tables used for layout. For example conversion (2ps 2txt 2abw &c)
tools.

-MG

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