tarquin &lt;tarquin(a)planetunreal.com&gt; writes: Sure. Please allow "|" as an alternate term delimiter, BTW; ":" often is part of the term (URLs!!) and thus you cannot use it without "<nowiki>" tricks. It's of no use to talk about such a strategie without referring to existing articles ;) Let's modify the Kuwait article accordingly... Also you must not use table for navigation bars. No, not really. w3m is advanced, but I cannot use it for various reasons (e.g., UTF-8 support it's flaky) and tables in general will not work as long as you cannot use a wide xterm (80 chars are often not enough). Another drawback concerning tables is, that when printed they often don't look that good. -- | ,__o http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | _-\_<, ke(a)suse.de (work) / keichwa(a)gmx.net (home) | (*)/'(*)

tarquin &lt;tarquin(a)planetunreal.com&gt; writes: If you will even go for it, please do it properly. Make use of well defined SGML features (shortref and usemap) -- you will be surprised how smart this could be (QWERTZ and linuxdoc are examples for such features). It isn't that important. -- | ,__o http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | _-\_<, ke(a)suse.de (work) / keichwa(a)gmx.net (home) | (*)/'(*)

erik_moeller(a)gmx.de (Erik Moeller) writes: Putting borders around cells is even worse. This way you waste precious horizontal space. Another ugly issue is, the formatting/displaying of the tables happen "on-the-fly"; thus often you cannot start reading a partially downloaded page because elments are flipping around... BTW, rule of thumb: if you cannot read a page using lynx, it is not worth reading at all ;) Don't forget that many a lot "low end" notebooks are stil in use; on them using Galeon or Mozilla often isn't an option (on 233MHz, 64MB RAM and a 800x600 display I refuse to run it). CPU usage isn't the strongest argument, but it sums up together with all the other arguments and leads to the conclusion that table usage is of dubious value for the reader. The nicer a page looks the less info it carries. But people seems to ask for it and they get it... -- | ,__o http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | _-\_<, ke(a)suse.de (work) / keichwa(a)gmx.net (home) | (*)/'(*)