...and the name of "a standards compliant browser" (to which to your refer) is?

I ask because I don't really believe there is such a thing.

Tangent: Using the phrase "standards compliant" (yeah, I'm guilty too) tends to obscure the issue -- IMO -- which arises from the fact that "standards compliant" is not the same as "implements all of whichever relevant standard one might select."

There is, for example, a "standard" (and right now I've forgotten whether its CSS or html4.1) providing a way to align a mixed length set of decimal numbers*1 in a column of <td>s in a <table> (it applies to other things too, but that's easy to grasp.

That would be a very handy standard to follow... except that no browser (of which I'm aware) actually implements it. Yes, there are workarounds, but as is often the case, those workarounds are often a PITA.

*1 Example of the mixed length set of:

     1.01234
     101.234
     101.00
     10123.4

One common workaround, aligning the column rightward, doesn't work there, but some means of aligning the decimal points sure would make it easier to read.

In reply to Re^3: CSV or HTML? (now OT) by ww
in thread CSV or HTML? by jms53

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