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Subject:HTML and tables From:"Matthew B. Hicks" <matt -at- UNIDATA -dot- UCAR -dot- EDU> Date:Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:33:45 -0700
On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, LaVonna Funkhouser wrote:
> Sarah Lee wrote:
> >Bear in mind
> >that HTML's simplicity can also be something of a limitation--tables are
> >only supported in Netscape, ...
> Not true. Mosaic has supported HTML3 tables since v.1.4.4, and
> Internet Explorer *supposedly* has a new version that supports
> tables.
Be careful. MacMosaic supports tables now and Mosaic for Windows might (I
hope never to find out), but it's only partly true for X-Mosaic. The most
recent version of X-Mosaic that I looked at (2.5b6) choked if you had
*any* html tagging (bolding, links, images) inside a table cell. None of
the table would display properly if you had anything other than plain text
inside any cell. I don't know when the development teams for the different
platforms stopped talking to each other, but it sure looks like that's
what happened.
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