Re: Toward Graceful Deployment of Tables
Dan Connolly (connolly@w3.org)
Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:07:20 +0500
Josh Engel writes:
> connolly@w3.org (Dan Connolly) writes:
> >
> > <center><PRE><TABLE BORDER=3 CELLSPACING=3> <TR><TD WIDTH=25%><IMG
> > ALIGN=top SRC="pics/blueball.gif" ALT="o " height=15 width=15><A
> > HREF="projects.html"><EM>Projects</EM></A> </TD><TD WIDTH=25%><IMG
> .. several like lines omitted ...
> > ALIGN=top SRC="pics/blueball.gif" ALT="o " height=15 width=15><A
> > </TABLE></PRE></center> <BLOCKQUOTE><HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
> >
> > Umm... er... blech.
>
> I think you are being unfair. Sure, this is unreadable, but it is also
> probably machine-generated.
Machine generated or not, it's got <table> inside <pre>, and by
some happy accident, it behaves the way he expected. I can't believe
he arrived at this markup via any documented or supported means. I believe he
arrived at it via trial and error.
Dan