RE: [9fans] libhtml vs. <pre> tags

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

>> ...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.

yep

>I wrote charon and did the abortive attempt to convert it to c (i).

yes, but you made libhtml in the process, which is what I'm using :)

>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.

yeah, it is not about just rendering tables, but doing it in elegantly,
well if I can't do it this way, I'll have to do it in another one,
time will tell :)

>Good luck!

thanks

>- Howard

Federico G.Benavento

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