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Xavier Neys wrote: |
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> Please do not assume some text will always be as short as you think. |
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> For instance, displaying a date in a narrow column is a bad idea. Some |
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> will be |
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> wider than you think (different languages, different formats, |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/tests/testdate.xml). |
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Just out of interest, why not stick to using the internationally |
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accepted YYYY-MM-DD format everywhere? |
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Of course page layout should preferably not break whatever format is |
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used, I just don't understand why people continue to use different |
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(often ambiguous) formats when a perfectly good standard exists. Am I |
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missing something obvious? |
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> BTW, I agree that using tables for the layout should be avoided but using |
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> tables to show tabular data is exactly what they were meant for in the |
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> first |
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> place. We have plenty of them and they stay. |
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Naturally. Not using <table> for a table is just as wrong as the opposite. |
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/ Stefan :) |
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