hixie: align=middle works basically the same as align=center, as far as I can tell. (Not every browser is identical here, but this seems the simplet compromise amongst the browsers I tested.) (whatwg r5016)

hixie: align=middle works basically the same as align=center, as far as
I can tell. (Not every browser is identical here, but this seems the
simplet compromise amongst the browsers I tested.) (whatwg r5016)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4032&r2=1.4033&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5015&to=5016

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4032
retrieving revision 1.4033
diff -u -d -r1.4032 -r1.4033
--- Overview.html 13 Apr 2010 05:09:20 -0000 1.4032
+++ Overview.html 13 Apr 2010 05:44:26 -0000 1.4033
@@ -60941,9 +60941,10 @@
   <code><a href="#the-thead-element">thead</a></code>, <code><a href="#the-tbody-element">tbody</a></code>, <code><a href="#the-tfoot-element">tfoot</a></code>,
   <code><a href="#the-tr-element">tr</a></code>, <code><a href="#the-td-element">td</a></code>, and <code><a href="#the-th-element">th</a></code> elements when
   they have an <code title="attr-div-align"><a href="#attr-div-align">align</a></code> attribute
-  whose value is an <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for the
-  string "<code title="">center</code>", are expected to center text
-  within themselves, as if they had their 'text-align' property set to
+  whose value is an <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitive</a> match for
+  either the string "<code title="">center</code>" or the string
+  "<code title="">middle</code>", are expected to center text within
+  themselves, as if they had their 'text-align' property set to
   'center' in a <a href="#presentational-hints" title="presentational hints">presentational
   hint</a>, and to <a href="#align-descendants">align descendants</a> to the
   center.</p>

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