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From: "Trickey, Howard W (Howard)" <trickey@lucent.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] libhtml vs. <pre> tags
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:47:50 -0400
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> ...I knew that this was easy to fix, but I didn't
> because, right now, <table> is my problem.

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. Part of the problem is that it is easy to inconsistently overspecify a table (e.g., the whole table must have width 3in but there are only two columns each of which must have width 2 in), and you have to experiment with, say, Internet Explorer, to see how it resolves the problem.

I'm pretty sure Tom Duff stopped work on mothra because he hit the table wall and couldn't think of an elegant way to get past it. I stopped work on i because I had another more important project, but I was fighting table bugs, mostly, at the end.

Good luck!

- Howard