Re: fresnel for tabular layouts?

From: David R. Karger <karger_at_theory.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:15:52 -0500

do you have a good example of this use of css for tables?
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        From: "Chris Bizer" <bizer_at_gmx.de>
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        Hi David,

        Yes, CSS can handle tables. They have put this part of the CSS vocabulary in
        order to be able to style XML documents using tables and we are just reusing
        this functionality in Fresnel.

        So, no problem with tables.

        Chris


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        From: "David R. Karger" <karger_at_mit.edu>
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>
> How is fresnel going to handle tabular layouts? I don't think css can
> decide to put things in a table---most of the html i've seen, even if
> using css heavily, still uses <table>, <tr>, <td> tags in order to
> construct the table. If these are fundamental tags for the
> intermediate representation, should fresnel have specific knowledge of
> them and vocabulary for using them?
>
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