- From: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:51:00 +0100
- To: "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: "Ben Millard" <cerbera@projectcerbera.com>, "James Graham" <jg307@cam.ac.uk>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
2008/9/26 Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:52:27 +0200, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes, this is a good idea. HTML 5's proposed smart scope algorithm >> pretty much does this, except it overlooks dir="rtl". > > > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:32:08 +0200, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> 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? >> >> If the direction could be determined reliably, this could be a great >> algorithm. > > The algorithm is direction agnostic, AIUI. If you set dir="rtl" on a table, > its rendering is flipped so that the first cell in a row becomes the > rightmost cell. I meant the direction of the scope. From what you said, it sounds like it works correctly because of the orientation of the headers. If that's resolved, this would be a good algorithm that would negate the need for most examples that require the headers attribute (apart from irregular tables). I tested it with dir="ltr", and it does work how it should. Gez -- _____________________________ Supplement your vitamins http://juicystudio.com
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