> There was never a well-substantiated argument for the alleged harm of layout tables. What was the best argument that you can recall? What were some of the bad ones? What does "harm" mean in this context? > because the…
> the idea persists to this day despite its near complete failure to pay off significantly in nearly twenty years I am not clear on exactly what "the idea" refers to, perhaps you could clarify. Also, how has the idea…
I agree that a tree structure can work well for mapping UIs, but HTML does not. It was specifically design as a textual markup language. Its role has been expanded, but it has been done so poorly. What really needs to…
> There was never a well-substantiated argument for the alleged harm of layout tables. What was the best argument that you can recall? What were some of the bad ones? What does "harm" mean in this context? > because the…
> the idea persists to this day despite its near complete failure to pay off significantly in nearly twenty years I am not clear on exactly what "the idea" refers to, perhaps you could clarify. Also, how has the idea…
I agree that a tree structure can work well for mapping UIs, but HTML does not. It was specifically design as a textual markup language. Its role has been expanded, but it has been done so poorly. What really needs to…