Please Tables in HTML+

Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>

Mail folder: WWW Talk Oct 93-present
Next message: Bryan Cheung: "Proper client interpretation of <pre>blah</pre>"
Previous message: frans van hoesel: "pre 7 does not compile"
Reply: Terry Allen: "Re: Please Tables in HTML+"

Message-id: <199311021501.AA22963@rock.west.ora.com>
From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 07:01:59 PST
X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.0 10/31/90)
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Please Tables in HTML+

I can do just about everything I need to in HTML for the 
documents I'm currently trying to put up, except for tables.
PRE is a poor substitute for proper tables, and Table is
the biggest advance HTML+ offers me over HTML.  

I agree we could defer much of what's in the current draft,
but please let's keep Tables in.  I wish they'd go away,
but they won't.

Marc A deprecates underlining and the HTMLPLUS tag.  Underlining
is essential for representing edited or modified text; browsers
simply need a way to distinguish underlined text from hot 
underlined text.  The HTMLPLUS tag, if the begin tag is made
inomissible, will be a precious indication of what DTD a document
corresponds to.  I really think it should be retained.

Regards,

-- 
Terry Allen  (terry@ora.com)
Editor, Digital Media Group
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Sebastopol, Calif., 95472