Re: lynx-dev different versions of lynx.. different outputs.

[brian j. pardy]

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Philip Webb wrote:

> 981028 Eduardo Chappa wrote: 
> > I installed Lynx 2.8.1Rel.1 in unix for my personal use
> > I checked out the output of the following address:  
> >  http://www.math.washington.edu/  in lynx 2.7.1
> > and the title and other things appear centered, but not so in 2.8.
> > There appears the following code:
> >  <center><table>.. blah blah blah.. </table><center>
> > whose output in 2.7.1 is 
> > 
> >                 .. blah blah bah..
> > 
> > and whose output in 2.8.1Rel.1 is
> > 
> > ..blah blah blah.. (not centered)
> > 
> > When I change the tags to
> >  <table><center>..blah blah blah </center></table>
> > 
> > both versions of lynx have the same centered output.
> > Any ideas of what could the problem be here ?
>  
> the problem is yet another piece of HTML pedantry (grimace):
> i raised this very issue a couple of months ago:
> see the Archive for 9809 (probably).

Please, let's not consider another "well, everyone else is doing it, so
we can/should break spec". 

<TABLE> has an ALIGN attribute, which is the proper way (as I read the
spec) to center it.

<CENTER> is only a text element.

(This has probably all been said before...)

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