- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:14:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Mats Palmgren <mats.palmgren@bredband.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Mats Palmgren wrote: > > FYI, the three most widely used UAs (IE, Gecko, Opera) have different > layout for even the simplest of border-collapse tables and *none* of > them complies with CSS 2.1 in this respect. > > I think the current text is a mistake and since UAs currently isn't > interoperable it's not to late to correct. It's fine for fixed table > layout where it makes sense to just look at the first row, but for > automatic table layout I think we should require UAs to consider all > borders and grow the margins as needed, as fantasai once suggested: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2003Mar/0003 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155955 That would make rendering tables significantly more expensive and the UA vendors on the working group were unanimously against such a requirement, if I recall correctly. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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