On 22/09/2010 10:50 AM, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
> And lo On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:35:08 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
> spake thusly:
>
>> I think I'm going to go with <table>, simply because it lets me
>> actually achieve the rendering result I want. Sure, tables are evil.
>> OTOH, my data actually *is* a table! So putting it in <table> isn't
>> that much of a hack.
>
> Well yeah if it's tabular data present it in a table nothing evil about
> that well unless you're going to use nested tables just for display
> purposes that's frowned upon; and if you're not then you're going to
> have to style every single cell and that's just messy.

Nested tables won't even help me here. And no, I don't need to style 
every single cell. I just style each row (so I can get alternating 
colours) and each cell in column 1 (so I can set the indent). And since 
the whole table will be machine-generated anyway...

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