Hello Nvu users,
I still prefer tables because they are easy to use and avoid
nesting
tables, rather extend the cells. And to avoid slow handling
as Henry
mentions, I break the tables in parts.
Most, if not all, browsers (and wysiwyg editors) have to
read the
complete table first to aqcuire the right width and height
in the
window space available.
I take 2 or 3 rows for the first table and top part of the
page, that
works well for me, with logo and usually the menu. The
contents of
this first table will load rather fast and the
visitor/reader has
enough to study while the next table loads. This second
table also 3
rows and thereafter it doesn't matter that much anymore.
The snack is that if you use Nvu as wysiwyg the developer
decided that
if someone creates a new table direct after that first one
they can be
combined and the new -second- table tag <table>
disappears the same
instant. I work around that and set my editor to not alter
the
'original' source code and create two tables with a line
brake or
paragraph between them. Then in the source I delete the line
break
<br> and Nvu understands what I want and leaves it
that way. This can
only be done in the source.
I use Linspire and the other system and on both working with
"splitted" tables works fast. Of course the
separated tables need to
have the exact same defintion in width.
For Mike, your site looks good indeed and for me with
mozilla and a
very old IE version (5.0) the top button functions. In spite
of the
fact that the top anchor is missing. My guess that the
browser goes to
top because you specified the complete url which means the
page just
reloads and then of course display from top as first visit.
Also your links to the part in the page ( the name anchor)
are full
url's which isn't necessary, better to use relative links,
like this:
<a href="#Mathematics"> without the index
ahead of it.
On top of the page right below the body tag should be: <A
NAME="top"></A>
And finally Mike, I like the looks, the color scheme is
challenging
and imho fits the contents (which is abracadabra to me),
but, matter
of taste, I would prefer to give it all the <center>
tag to have the
contents in the middle of the window.
These were my 2 cents from the Netherlands,
Jacob..
Ps.. Henry don;t switch to PC .. 
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Neugass" <henryneu pacbell.net>
To: <infolists.nvudev.org>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 20:52
Subject: Re: [Nvu-Info] Some uses for Non-breaking spaces
--> Nvu
tables, generally
Colleagues:
I've followed the recent thread about using tables to
support
precision
alignment of page elements. I use this technique sometimes
in various
authoring environments, and it seems to work well enough.
In my experience, editing tables in Nvu on Mac gets very
slow as soon
as the
table size exceeds a few cells. It is simply impossible to
work with
larger
tables --say, above 4 columns by 20 rows, just guessing.
Any other
Mac
users concur?
Any PC users have radically better results? (If so, I might
switch to
PC for
doing tables. Hmmmmm...)
Thanks,
Henry
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