Re: function and impacts (was: @scope and @headers reform)

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:39:59 +0200, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:

>> For any interested archeologists, there was discussion about this on  
>> #whatwg:
>>
>> <http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20080925#l-601>
>
> I looked through some of your tables and tested it against the newly  
> implemented rule.
>
> # [15:46] <zcorpan_> it doesn't work with  
> http://projectcerbera.com/web/study/2007/tables/clark2006/06-gui/minimal
> # [15:56] <zcorpan_>  
> http://projectcerbera.com/web/study/2007/tables/clark2006/19-movies/minimal  
> is another case where it fails
>
> It worked correctly for those tables without the newly implemented rule.
>
> Some observations:
>
>     * Those two were columns -- Gez had rows.
>
>     * Those two had the relevant header cells at the top of the table --
>       Gez had data cells to the left of the relevant header cells.
>
> I guess we need a bigger sample of tables to know what to do for this  
> particular case. Could this pattern of cells be detected by a script?

I just found that it also breaks a table in the spec:

    http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dom.html#dynamic-markup-insertion

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software