Re: [Sheflug] Re: New Front Page

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

At 15:25 02/05/2000 +0100, Al Hudson wrote:

>On Tue, 2 May 2000, Steve Tickle wrote:
>
> > While I in no way claim to be an html author, I always find that it's
> > better to design my pages for an absolute screen width because of all the
> > wrapping that IE and Nutscrape do. Therefore I'd say it would be better if
> > you made the line
> >
> > <center><table COLS=3 WIDTH="100%" NOSAVE >
> >
> > something like <center><table COLS=3 WIDTH="750" NOSAVE >.
>
>This is where I disagree ;)) As a (professional!) HTML author, I *much*
>prefer percentages - they scale. And center is a complete no-no, so I
>guess I disagree with both of you ;)) Of course, it depends on your HTML
>syle (it's like Kung-Fu ;). I would prefer:
>
><div align='center'><table cols='3' width='90%' border='0'> ...

Well, yes, I agree with you on the <CENTER> bit. Although I'd included it 
in my snip, was actually concentrating on the "WIDTH=" parameter. I still 
prefer to set a maximum page width before I start to use percentages 
afterwards... the scaling is part of the problem is it not?

Steve


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