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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:04:30 +0100
From: Uriel <uriell@binarydream.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] libhtml vs. <pre> tags
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:47:50AM -0400, Trickey, Howard W (Howard) wrote:
> And I predict <table> will remain your problem for quite some time.
> I wrote charon and did the abortive attempt to convert it to c (i).
> 
> Tables have always been a complete bitch in rendering HTML. 
Tables are a piece of cake compared to the CSS layout model. 

And web designers have been moving away from tables and to CSS for quite
some time.

> Good luck!
I think that to write a web browser this days you need more than just
luck.

What I would like to see is someone working on a replacement for the web
that follows the Plan 9 design style. (yea, it's in my TODO list, but who
knows when I will get to it, and I really would like to see what others
come up with)

uriel