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On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Paul Sutton wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Rob Hartill wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> > >   !   <DIV ALIGN="CENTER">
> > >   !    <TABLE>
> > >   !     <TR>
> > >   !      <TD>Eric Hagberg&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
> > >   !      <TD>Frank Peters&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
> > 
> > you might want to look at "CELLPADDING" and "CELLSPACING" TABLE
> > attributes.
> > 
> > &nbsp;  is very ugly.
> 
> I think the idea is to make it look nice in lynx. Which it does very
> nicely. 

With a recent lynx, tables should be readable. As for "nice", I think
valid HTML 3.2 is fair game. "&nbsp;" is probably just as ugly on
other broken/outdated browsers. Readable is enough for small minority
browsers IMO.