On Apr 15, 2007, at 13:02, Henri Sivonen wrote: > A naïve layout data structure would be proportional to the number > of slots, but real-world UAs have to do something to avoid using > that naïve layout data structures or, alternatively, be sure to > clamp down the permissible size of the table in terms of slots. > > (FWIW, Gecko has magic max values for rowspan and colspan and, > according to the comments in the Gecko source code, Opera and IE > have the same magic max value for colspan. It appears that WebKit > does not have such magic values.) And I am not implying that the layout data structures of Gecko, Opera and IE are naïve. I don't know where the shared colspan max came from. The Gecko rowspan max comes from the size of an implementation- specific bitfield. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Received on Sunday, 15 April 2007 10:10:04 GMT
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