Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact forrest-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list forrest-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 66621 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2002 13:24:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bluebox.betaversion.org) (62.110.41.207) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 13 Mar 2002 13:24:29 -0000 Received: from apache.org (unknown [217.133.239.86]) by bluebox.betaversion.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3150B6DDC7 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:24:28 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3C8F4C51.A0B505A2@apache.org> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:55:45 +0100 From: Stefano Mazzocchi X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: forrest-dev@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: home.html References: <00d301c1ca80$ca5d6eb0$6150000a@flagship.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N "Piroumian, Konstantin" wrote: > > Hi! > > Is there any special/political/technological reason for using so much 'div's > for HTML layout? Lightness. But I'm fully aware the above doesn't work on 4th generation browsers and below. The HTML layout is *not* the final result, but only there to show people where we're going. > I am absolutely sure that it's possible to get the same > layout using simple 'table's and 'span's. Oh, of course. > That will make pages editable with a visual tool (e.g. DreamWeaver). So? nobody is ever going to edit those pages with a external visual tool anyway since they will be generated out of XML. > And maybe that is the cause that makes > pages unaccessible for 4.x browsers? yes, we have already agreed on that. > FYI: trying to open home.html with Netscape 4.7 crashed it with Dr. Watson. Guys, we have to decide if we go static or dynamic first! -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche --------------------------------------------------------------------