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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: AWeb doesn't support tables
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:04:17 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960411.76B6520.90E2@contessa.phone.net>
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- In <4kh71c$mg@news1.io.org>, woloshyn@io.org (Larry Woloshyn) wrote:
- > Why doesn't AWeb support table tags, I thought they were pretty
- > standard by now. Any word on support?
-
- The docs for AWeb say it supports HTML 2.0. If you don't know what
- that means, get a copy of RFC 1866, which defines it.
-
- Tables aren't really any more standard than they were in 1994, when
- they were first proposed as part of HTML+. There's one bad but popular
- (the MS-Windows of web browsers) implementation of them as defined in
- the HTML 3.0 ID (well, that's what the authors claimed to be
- following, but you coulda fooled me), and a number of good
- implementations in browsers that aren't very popular (filling the role
- of the Amiga on the WWW :-).
-
- There's an ID for tables that I believe has been accepted by the IETF
- and is awaiting an RFC number. It's similar enough to the HTML 3.0
- version that simple tables written for it will work in popular
- browsers, and even includes unverifiable-by-sgml-tools hooks for
- backwards compatability with some of the misfeatures introduced in the
- popular implementations.
-
- <mike
-