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Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003]

From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com>
To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:36:21 +0100
Subject: Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003]
References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030318152444.03b89030@172.27.10.30> <4.3.2.7.2.20030318162537.01cb6c98@172.27.10.30> <4.3.2.7.2.20030318171515.03a42da0@172.27.10.30> <200303191009.55900.bigsmoke@home.nl>

BigSmoke wrote:

The greatest struggle of previous years have been to encourage people to abondon horrible contructs like bgcolor within the semantic mark-up.

Yes.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html
specifies that bgcolor is deprecated on all elements including table.

width and height on td and th also are deprecated.

The point of semantic mark-up is that it contains just semantics.

... and structure :)

Tobi

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References:
- Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003]
  - From: Paul Grosso
- Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003]
  - From: Paul Grosso
- Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003]
  - From: Paul Grosso
- Re: [docbook] strict versus transitional XHTML tables [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 Mar 2003]
  - From: BigSmoke

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