- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:08:32 -0800
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> The amounts of duplicates in
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22274 seems to keep
> growing. Now with bugs about SVG inside table cells instead of spacer
> gifs. Maybe it is time to reconsider and specify the behavior of "almost
> standards mode" (which Internet Explorer exhibits in "standards mode" as
> I understand it) in CSS 2.1 thereby effectively obsoleting the need for
> "almost standards mode".
>
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Images%2C_Tables%2C_and_Mysterious_Gaps
> is the old article on this subject (though it was previously located on
> developer.netscape.com).
>
> To potential ways we can solve this:
>
> * Introduce a CSS new property to toggle between the different
> behaviours defaulting to the "almost standards mode" one for HTML table
> elements.
>
> * Change the CSS model to behave like "almost standards mode" does now.
> And maybe going forward introduce a new property to get the behavior
> described now if that's desirable.
Why isn't
td > img { vertical-align: middle; }
sufficient for this?
~fantasai
Received on Monday, 28 January 2008 19:08:47 UTC