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

[Andrew Cunningham]

Quoting Tony Barry <me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au>:

> 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.
> 

or if you wnat to go one step further, why are hypertext documents constrained 
and limited to a design paradigm that developed for certain types of print 
media?



Andrew Cunningham
Multilingual Technical Project Officer
Vicnet, State Library of Victoria
andrewc at vicnet.net.au