13th April 2005, 10:26 PM
You see the code for tables isn't always "put the text right over here", but rather it gives it a list of stuff and a table and the browser is left to put it all together as it sees fit, so things can pop around. For example, Netscape and IE used to (not sure if this is still the case) handle tables so differently that the title segment in the code, coded exactly the same way, would be at the top of the table in one and the bottom in the other. For me, the name appears to the right of my avatar, but I'm using the new style layout.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)