- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:14:29 -0800
- To: Simetrical <simetrical@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "\"Rainer Åhlfors\"" <rahlfors@wildcatsoftware.net>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, mongolie2006-w3c@yahoo.fr, "CSS mailiing list W3C" <www-style@w3.org>
On Dec 30, 2008, at 6:11 AM, Simetrical wrote:
> I guess that if Feature 3 was really important you might want to have
>
> :nth-col(4) { font-weight: bolder; }
>
> but then it's not clear if you'd want this to apply to the other two
> features also, if a cell overlaps all three. If you want to set apart
> one column by styling it differently, you'd likely avoid colspans that
> run over that row, so I'm not sure if it makes a difference how
> colspans are treated here.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. I don't think we
can just guess at which columns styling is more important to
individual authors of individual projects, but we CAN make the rules
unambiguous. And if the UA only has to determine the column a TD
starts in, and not have to determine what other columns' properties
might also apply to it (or override its own), then that is simpler for
implementation and speed and resolving conflicts, isn't it? If the
author only has to be concerned with which column it starts in, and
not have to determine what other columns' properties might also apply
to it (or override its own), then that is simpler for authoring.
Received on Tuesday, 30 December 2008 20:15:12 UTC