Re: LYNX-DEV Various rants

[Drazen Kacar]

Foteos Macrides wrote:
> address@hidden (Drazen Kacar) wrote:
> >[..]
> >Foteos, how about dumping TAB tag? Tables will have to be implemented one of
> >        these days and TAB makes it very hard to calculate cell width.

>       I'm not keen to drop it.  If TABLEs are implemented seriously,
> and TAB is a problem, it can be treated as excluded from TABLEs in SGML
> comformat ways,

This is what I meant, but I didn't write it. :( Must be because of headache
produced by RFC 1942. <sheepish grin>

> so there's no need to drop it altogether, and many
> people presently are using TAB in TABLEs to make them look good with
> Lynx, since it's ignored by other, TABLE-capable browsers.  So it might
> be just as well to ignore TAB when TABLE markup is processed fully as
> intented, but keep recognizing and using it otherwise.

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