Yes, tables are seriously broken in all recent versions of NCSA's X Mosaic
(ever since they supported tables at all, in fact). I dunno about Mac and
Windows Mosaic; those flavors are being maintained separately with
separate source code, so perhaps their tables work.
X Mosaic fails to display any table entry that contains a link (and
probably most other nontrivial markup codes as well). The proposed FAQ
Launcher layout is thus quite useless in X Mosaic.
The Mosaic guys say that a complete rewrite of the tables code is needed
to fix this; they're working on it, but don't hold your breath.
Version 2.7b2 of X Mosaic, due out any day now, will temporarily "fix" the
problem by disabling the broken tables code (at user option, but I expect
most people will choose to disable, because tables with links in them are
*everywhere*). This will make table contents visible, though they won't
be laid out nicely.
I vote against using tables for the FAQ Launchers. It's worth reiterating
the point someone else made: the people who most need the FAQs are the
least likely to have the latest, spiffiest browsers. I say the Launchers
SHOULD be plain, unadulterated, lowest-common-denominator HTML 1.0.
It's far more important that they be accessible to every Web user than
that they look cool.
A possible compromise: two sets of launchers. Shouldn't be that tough
given that they're all machine-generated anyway...
regards, tom lane
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