Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the worldwide web, on writing HTML:
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me — that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.
Stan Brown, giving Flavell’s Law its name:
I think it’s called “Flavell’s Law” — or at least it could be:
A page that purports to teach others to use HTML, or to be a reference, will itself fail validation.
David Dorward, on the subject of nested tables:
- Are you trying to use tables for layout?
- Yes -> http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts
- No -> Sure?
- No -> http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts
- Yes -> Really? You are only using them to asociated rows and cols of data?
- No -> http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts
- Yes -> Give us a URL. Data that is so complex that it makes sense to nest tables is really rare. This is something special.