Posted by TaliesinSoft on 02/16/07 16:13

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:00:49 -0600, Andy Dingley wrote (in article
<1171641646.852864.100640@t69g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>):

[responding to my giving a reference to a site produced with Freeway Pro that
passed "strict" validation]

> Nurse! New keyboards and the monitor wipes please! 8-)
>
> This is beautiful in the Adams-like clarity of its demonstration of
> cluelessness.
>
> The last comment could be paraphrased as "Freeway looks like it over- uses
> <table> markup when inappropriate, please show an example of better coding
> style". So what do you do, you take an example that's a perfect situation
> for legitimately using a <table>, then you do it with absolutely
> positioned <div>s. Total perversity in appropriate markup.
>
> If Jukka or Jonathan had done this, it would be funny. It might even be
> convincing that Freeway could use non-table markup in _any_ situation. As
> it is though, I have to suspect that it just shows a complete failure to
> even understand what the issue is, let alone how to solve it.

But the fact remains that the website, whether one likes it or not, displays
in every browser tested, six of them, *exactly* as intended. If the results
are as wanted, why should I be concerned about the underlying code structure

--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com

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