Table support in browsers

Do you think future browsers will support tables if CSS usage becomes
almost universal?

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Charles Sweeney wrote:

> Do you think future browsers will support tables if CSS usage becomes
> almost universal?

Tables in general will always be supported I think, as long as there
is tabular data out there.

For layout purposes, the width and height property on table cells
would need to be honoured, and they're already removed from the HTML
(Strict), but I don't think they'd be removed from CSS. IOW, I think
tables will be abused for layout purposes in the future, just like
they are now.

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"Charles Sweeney" <me@charlessweeney.com> wrote in message
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> Do you think future browsers will support tables if CSS usage becomes
> almost universal?

Well, tables ARE still the preferred method for formatting tabular data, so
I don't see them being deprecated any time soon

"Els" <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote in message
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> Charles Sweeney wrote:
>
>> Do you think future browsers will support tables if CSS usage becomes
>> almost universal?
>
> Tables in general will always be supported I think, as long as there
> is tabular data out there.
>
> For layout purposes, the width and height property on table cells
> would need to be honoured, and they're already removed from the HTML
> (Strict), but I don't think they'd be removed from CSS. IOW, I think
> tables will be abused for layout purposes in the future, just like
> they are now.

Until CSS gets its act together (actually, more so the browser makers) and
allows for simple centering and simple height matching and the like, they
certainly will be.

Charles Sweeney wrote

> Do you think future browsers will support tables if CSS usage becomes
> almost universal?

Thanks for the replies.

I think there is a consensus[1] here.

My thinking was that people would use CSS to present tabular data. I
appreciate the difference between "style" and data, but I am thinking
quite a way down the line, where CSS may evolve to do everything.

Personally I have no need to learn CSS for layout, so it would suit me
if the support for tables continued! From what I have read here, I feel
suitably encouraged.

[1] I will stop using "consensus" as my word-of-the-week, if Dylan stops
using "semantics" as his!

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Els wrote

> Charles Sweeney wrote:
>
>> Do you think future browsers will support tables if CSS usage becomes
>> almost universal?
>
> Tables in general will always be supported I think, as long as there
> is tabular data out there.

Good.

> IOW, I think
> tables will be abused

"abused"? Behave. The language is there to be used as the individual
sees fit.

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Previously in alt.www.webmaster, Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> said:

> To unite Europe more, or as the propoganda said: to fight better
> against terrorism, to ensure more safety, rights, and some more stuff
> I suppose - the real reason isn't very clear to me.

<g>

> The result however would be that there would be a European law, (on
> top of the existing national ones, not instead of those), and a Europe
> that would speak as one unity instead of speaking in so many different
> voices. Well, and a lot more than that of course, but I don't feel
> like translating and typing out the 8 page small print "neutral"
> information leaflet I got last week :-)

That was very well summarised, actually. I almost feel like I was there.
:-)

> Me neither, but this issue caught me cause I got a voting card in the
> mail <g>

Can't avoid that!

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