Re: fresnel for tabular layouts?

From: Chris Bizer <bizer_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:48:49 -0500

> do you have a good example of this use of css for tables?

For Fresnel not yet, but it is on the todo list ;-)

General information about CSS tables is found about at
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html

Chris

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From: "David R. Karger" <karger_at_theory.csail.mit.edu>
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> do you have a good example of this use of css for tables?
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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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> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 6:42 PM
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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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