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| From: | Walter Ian Kaye |
| Subject: | Re: [Lynx-dev] it doesn't render tables.... :-( |
| Date: | Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:31:26 -0800 |
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:58:59PM -0700, Seth House wrote: > Also many sites misuse tables. Try using Lynx to visit someone's blog > or another modern site that doesn't use tables for layout, it's > gorgeous. I have found that for displaying tabular data, Lynx can be Lynx still botches some very simple, non-layout tables, especially if there is a <center> tag in or around the table. Lynx renders such tables as a long vertical string of cells.
Yeah, well it's worse really -- the content within the table is all centered instead of the table itself being centered. To work around this in my own pages I avoid <center> and use <table align=center> instead.
AFAIKT, Lynx can't handle long strings within a single cell, i.e., can't wrap lines within a cell, either. The worst problem I find is that Lynx doesn't line up the cells in a straight column down the page, but rather squeezes the content to the left. There's no way to know what <td> goes with what <th>.
It depends. I think Lynx does better when every table cell has an align attribute; otherwise Lynx guesses, and guesses in an unaligned way.
-boo
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