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Index of Subjects On Fri, 12 May 2000, Andrew D. Wright wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Christopher Majka wrote: > > > I just tried it with this document and <p align="center"> aligns the table > > perfectly. > > No, it doesn't. I did try this before sending a response (and of > course while testing the template in the first place). > > Internet Explorer 5 for Windows 98 will center the table, but > Netscape 4.72 for Windows 98 (and also Netscape for Linux) does not. I > don't have any other browsers in the office to test this on, but the > current template was tested on everything I could get my hands on. Well I tried the template (using <p align="center"> ) with both Internet Explorer 4.5 and Netscape 4.7 (on the Macintosh platform) with no rendering difficulties. > > Indeed, but the point of deprecated tags is that support for them in > > future browser versions is planned to be dropped entierly. Given that > > there are already mechnisms that can do the job [ <p align="center"> and > > <Table align="center"> ] that are HTML 4.0 compliant whereas <center> is > > not and is almost guaranteed not to work correctly at some point in the > > future, so why not do it right? Moreover it would seem that for something > > as fundamental as this template we should set an example and be as correct > > as possible. > > The whole idea of doing up the bulk of the pages on Chebucto with > Server Side Includes (SSI) is so we can revise the template as necessary. > The current template was adequately tested and needs no correcting at this > time. > > About the idea of using only "proper" HTML, it's a fine sounding > idea, but (a) W3C, the standard bearers for this have got to have the most > tedious and boring looking pages on the web (though technically "correct") > and (b) all we really need to do is look good in recent era MSIE and > Netscape, be clear and legible in Lynx and not be too much of a dog's > breakfast for any other browsers. "Deprecated" tags are only garbage when > the top two browsers drop them. If and when they do, we can revise > accordingly. We can indeed. In my view its also a good thing (where possible) to lead by example (for our users and IPs) and employ coding that adheres to current international standards. Best wishes, Christopher Majka _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> Editor: Culture & Philosophy - Chebucto Community Net, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Culture.html "Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved." -- Andre Malraux, 1957 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
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