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In <4kh71c$mg@news1.io.org>, woloshyn@io.org (Larry Woloshyn) wrote:
> 	Why doesn't AWeb support table tags, I thought they were pretty 
> standard by now.  Any word on support?

The docs for AWeb say it supports HTML 2.0. If you don't know what
that means, get a copy of RFC 1866, which defines it.

Tables aren't really any more standard than they were in 1994, when
they were first proposed as part of HTML+. There's one bad but popular
(the MS-Windows of web browsers) implementation of them as defined in
the HTML 3.0 ID (well, that's what the authors claimed to be
following, but you coulda fooled me), and a number of good
implementations in browsers that aren't very popular (filling the role
of the Amiga on the WWW :-).

There's an ID for tables that I believe has been accepted by the IETF
and is awaiting an RFC number. It's similar enough to the HTML 3.0
version that simple tables written for it will work in popular
browsers, and even includes unverifiable-by-sgml-tools hooks for
backwards compatability with some of the misfeatures introduced in the
popular implementations.

	<mike