Posted by Tim Streater on 11/26/83 12:00

In article
<doraymeRidThis-4B82D2.06462017012008@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> In article
> <2662527f-4d74-4b08-9076-5081daff9208@v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.co
> m>,
> Travis Newbury <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 16, 6:39 am, XyZed <a...@washerhelp.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Back in the day I was convinced by a core of purists to design a fluid
> > > site that worked on all formats and used only css for styling.
> >
> > It wasn't true back then, and it isn't true today. There is NO
> > BLANKET RULES for how a website should be built or the technologies
> > you should use to build it. If anyone tells you different they are
> > just being pigheaded or ignorant.
> >
> O well, here goes: always use a title, always put a doctype,don't
> make the font-size so small that only very few people can read
> it, ...

These are reasonable rules. It's when they say "never use tables or
frames or iframes" that it becomes unreasonable.

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