- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:41:37 -0500
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Quoting "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>: >> Boris Zbarsky wrote: >>> Quoting Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>: >>> But the whole range of styling possibilities would apply to td:nth- >>> col(), if I am following this correctly. Right? That's kind of the >>> whole idea? >> >> I'd think so, yes. > > If :nth-col can apply the full range of styling (not just the standard > 4 attributes), then why can't we just move this functionality into > <col>? I guess you could similarly ask why the table-* display types exist at all, right? Because not everything on the web is HTML, and not everything that is a display table is a semantic table.
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