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- Rob,
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- I was hoping you could give me the benefit of the views of O'Reilly and
- Associates on some features that we could put into the extended standard for
- HTML. In particular, I would like some input on how much information is
- needed to specify tables.
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- It seems to me that tables can be characterised as follows:
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- o tables consist of headers, rows and columns
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- o tables often have dividing lines (single and double lines)
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- o alignment of cell data, e.g. left, right, on decimal point, ...
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- o tables can be nested (breaking a cell up into a nested table)
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- How important do you guys think it is to give the author detailed control
- over things like dividing lines and cell alignment?
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- I would be very interested if you have any thoughts as to how HTML should
- handle tables and the level of detail to aim for. We want to keep HTML
- reasonably simple while hitting most peoples needs. As experienced publishers
- of technical material where do you think we should take HTML?
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- Many thanks,
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- Dave Raggett
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-