Posted by Neredbojias on 06/20/06 21:26

To further the education of mankind, Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com>
vouchsafed:

>> The warning is completely bogus.
>>
>> Suppose I have an image I want 8px from container left but margined
>> right at 1% of container width? The markup is:
>>
>><img style="margin:0 1% 0 8px" src="da.gif" alt="">
>>
>> How does that make the page or ss "non-robust"? I think the w3c is a
>> little too full of itself, or a little too full of something.
>>
>>
>
> It doesn't say it's wrong, it's a warning that it might break. IIRC,
> when tables were used for layout, it was an issue then, too, not mixing
> percentages and fixed sizes.

Well, perhaps there is some historical significance, but a page can break
with any code/markup/styling that is misapplied, valid or not. Hopefully
when I boldly mix my margin size values, I have a bit of an idea of what I
am doing.

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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

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