Yet another reason to migrate to standards compliant [X]HTML. When newer browsers are in strict mode, images in tables don’t always line up the way you expect them to. This isn’t due to any bugs in the new browers. Quite the contrary. It’s because they are correctly implementing the specifications for how to render images in relation to text (even if there’s no text around them).
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Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps
Yet another reason to migrate to standards compliant [X]HTML. When newer browsers are in strict mode, images in tables don’t always line up the way you expect them to. This isn’t due to any bugs in the new browers. Quite the contrary. It’s because they are correctly implementing the specifications for how to render images in relation to text (even if there’s no text around them).
Related posts:
" “I would like to get away from tables all together. Does anyone know of any examples of markup for a tableless calendar?” Where did..."
" There’s an old saying in the computing field: “The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.” Funny, but..."
" The Macintosh crowd is all abuzz about the new Apple web browser, called Safari. It’s apparently based on the KHTML rendering engine, and has..."
" For anyone who is still mired in the HTML Tag Soup of old-style web page design, the question, “Why should I switch to using..."
" As mentioned previously here and elsewhere, Microsoft is working on Internet Explorer 7, which will have greatly improved CSS support. The IE7 team has..."