[arachne] Re: Another problem with tables in Arachne 1.89 - what exactly does "100%" mean?

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On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:17:40 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

>> But I am curious whether you have a similar explanation for the problem
>> I mentioned here:

>> http://www.freelists.org/archives/arachne/02-2006/msg00058.html

>> Unlike the other one which seems to be a problem with Sourceforge, the
>> posts in my forum display properly with Mozilla but not with Arachne.

>> So while the problem I reported now had nothing to do with Arachne, I am
>> still convinced that Arachne *has* problems with displaying tables
>> correctly.

> As I said.... it's the same problem.... the line of text is very long.

> The reason this one ends-up all crammed to the left is due to thew fact
> that it is not in a <pre> tag and is not in a <td nowrap>

> Here's the fixed version ... http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/sameprob.htm

Sorry, Glenn, but I think you did not read my entire post - the forum
message displays fine in Mozilla, without any changes to the HTML text.
Also, like I said in my earlier post, changing the width of the first
element in the table slightly suddenly makes Arachne display it just
like in Mozilla, which IMO is what it should probably look like.

Also, I think the web browser is supposed to wrap text that does not fit
in one line automatically, but not where Arachne does it - it should
wrap the text so that it matches the width of the table.

If *you* do not believe *me*, then simply look at the posts with Mozilla
or another so-called "standard" browser, and you will note the
difference between how those browsers display them and your "fixed"
version.

The basic problem is that web pages are designed to display fine in IE
and Mozilla, and if the Arachne user has to manually change them to make
them display fine in Arachne, too, it won't do Arachne any good.

Just like with the problem with '&amp;' in URLs, even if you strongly
feel that it is a bug in the HTML text of those web pages, most people
who know IE or Mozilla would rather say that it is a bug in Arachne.

So please do the Arachne community a favour and change this, okay?
Otherwise Arachne will earn a reputation of not being able to display
even simple web pages correctly.

Regards,

Udo

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