Re: div <clairification please>

At 02:15 PM 10/15/01 , Darrell King wrote:
>I think there are some problems using DIV with CSS for positioning, mostly
>(but probably not entirely!) related to 4.x and older....?

Hi Darrell,

I think it's pretty common knowledge that support for CSS in older (<4.X)
browsers is pretty ~horrible~, and Lord knows regardless of what "they" say
in **many** cases browsers DO NOT just ignore code they do not understand -
they choke and puke! , so I'm *certainly* not disputing that. My concern is
the (?my?) inability to find in the standards (4.X, XHTML 1.X, XML ~) _ any
_ reference to tables or their (ratified) attributes either being
depreciated or dropped.

If that *is* the case ("say goodbye to tables") my life has just gone
spiraling down the . . . loo.

>
>Tables really were developed for data displays and not content layout...but,
>we have to do what works.  Still, I know I'll be happy when I can do it all
>with CSS...:).  I have to admin, though, I haven't really looked at this
>closely in quite awhile...perhaps, with NN4 fading, we are getting to the
>point where we can use DIVs instead of tables?
>
>D

Hey, perhaps I'm reading too much between the lines of Holly's message. But
please try and understand that if she is (finitely) correct "we" are in a
world of hurt (referring to those of us who "must" cater to 2.x versions as
well as 6.x> versions).

Standing by (trembling) for Holly's clarification,
Fuzzy.
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