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

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Nov 10 2002 - 09:05:16 EST

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    On 9 Nov 2002, Mark Gilbert wrote:
    > 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.

    If you say so... but why?

    Curious, Frank

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