Tables: periodic, elemental, operatic, HTML4, CSS2 (with tabular data, not "layout")

It seems "Andreas Prilop" wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Stan Brown wrote:
But I'm curious: that gives today's rule but (unless I misread) does
not say when it became effective. Was "cc" deprecated even in the
early 1960s?

I'm afraid this is way OT here and I suggest <news:misc.metric-system
for such questions.

Then why did you bring it up?

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