Xavier Neys wrote:

> Please do not assume some text will always be as short as you think.
> For instance, displaying a date in a narrow column is a bad idea. Some 
> will be
> wider than you think (different languages, different formats,
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/tests/testdate.xml).

Just out of interest, why not stick to using the internationally 
accepted YYYY-MM-DD format everywhere?
Of course page layout should preferably not break whatever format is 
used, I just don't understand why people continue to use different 
(often ambiguous) formats when a perfectly good standard exists. Am I 
missing something obvious?

> BTW, I agree that using tables for the layout should be avoided but using
> tables to show tabular data is exactly what they were meant for in the 
> first
> place. We have plenty of them and they stay.

Naturally. Not using <table> for a table is just as wrong as the opposite.

/ Stefan :)
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