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in thread Looking for old Perl CGI code

Netscape 1.1 added the <TABLE> tag in April '95. I'm not sure how far back you'll find scripts using it before then.

Good luck, though

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Re: <TABLE> tag isn't that old
by ton (Friar) on Oct 13, 2005 at 17:24 UTC
    Ahh, I miswrote.

    I don't think the <TABLE> tag is a requirement; that's just how I mentally picture the script I'm looking for.

    I think the script just needs to present a subset of some dataset, and that presentation must have at least two different formats, with the format selected by the user. I don't even think the output has to be in HTML; a tab-delimited text file would suffice.


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Re: <TABLE> tag isn't that old
by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Oct 13, 2005 at 08:40 UTC
    TABLE elements were proposed before that (and implemented in other browsers as well). TABLEs were part of the HTML3 draft. Unfortunally, Netscape only implemented a subset of the TABLE functionality, and an incompatible subset as well. Other browsers decided to be Netscape compatible. HTML3.2 specifies a (compatible) superset of the Netscape implementation, and there's even an HTML tables RFC. Both HTML3.2 and the RFC date from 1996, IIRC.

    Unfortunally, we're a decade further, and little progress has been made.

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