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Posted by dorayme on 11/01/06 22:17
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<1162404409.243848.95740@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"Travis Newbury" <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:
> John Dunlop wrote:
> > > Fine, but for the fact that W3C validated code and CSS stylesheets
> > > display differently in different browsers.
> > ...in the very nature of a Web that is World Wide, no?
>
> Actually no, it happens to be that way only because the browsers can
> not agree how to do things. If they all agreed, and rendered
> everything the same way, then it would all look the same. So the "web"
> is not the issue, the browsers are. YMMV
>
>
> > > Tables impose a grid structure which responds more benignly to different
> > > browsers.
> > What the blazes are you talking about, man?
>
> who the hell knows, I'm lost with that statement too...
It seemed perfectly clear to me. (Calm down Jock!) If you use a
table in many situations (for layout purposes, not because the
content is really tabular), you get more consistent results over
a wider range of browsers both old and new than with css layout.
On average, taking everyone who does both into account, both the
skilful, the novice, the output from the wyswygs, operated by
people both good and bad. Give me a grant and I will provide you
with clear and meaningful stats that give perfectly good sense to
the statement by sampling.
About browsers being all the same. That would be unfortunate at
this stage. It is an important process to go through having
different experiments going on at the same time. I am saying
there is an upside to the difficulties - bit like free speech
really.
--
dorayme
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