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Unread 1 Jun 2003, 17:09   #27
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Originally posted by meglamaniac
I'm waiting for a response on what they plan to do in version 1.4 before I consider what to do about this. Judging from the number of similar reports I've been directed to, there are plenty more users who're frustrated by this so-called "correct" rendering pattern, so they may yet alter it.
Why wait for 1.4? Most people use 1.0, I think. You can force a table cell to exist with an   or a Unicode zero-width space ​.

ObStyleNazi: Using tables for this kind of layout is horrible when <div>s and styles and borders and so forth could do at least some of the jobs. And you probably shouldn't use alt="tabulation", etc - ok, alternate text is required by the validator, but someone using a textmode browser will actually see it.

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