[WEB4LIB] Re: one size for all? What I learned.

[Tony Barry]

At 6:28 AM -0800 28/2/01, Thomas Dowling wrote:
>F'rinstance, I never heard in this discussion why the table needed to be a
>certain width at all, or even why the page needed a table.  Perhaps that's
>where the compatibility and window width discussions need to start.

I'll bite.

Tables should be used to display tabular information and not used as 
a layout tool so that you can pretend you are dealing with paper of a 
fixed width.

Tony
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