- From: Bruce Boughton <bruce@bruceboughton.me.uk>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:18:44 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Apr 15, 2007, at 13:02, Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> A naïve layout data structure would be proportional to the number of >> slots, but real-world UAs have to do something to avoid using that >> naïve layout data structures or, alternatively, be sure to clamp down >> the permissible size of the table in terms of slots. >> >> (FWIW, Gecko has magic max values for rowspan and colspan and, >> according to the comments in the Gecko source code, Opera and IE have >> the same magic max value for colspan. It appears that WebKit does not >> have such magic values.) > > And I am not implying that the layout data structures of Gecko, Opera > and IE are naïve. I don't know where the shared colspan max came from. > The Gecko rowspan max comes from the size of an > implementation-specific bitfield. > > --Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > > Thanks for clearing that up, Henri! It doesn't appear as if the spec places any limits on table size[1]. Perhaps this is something that should be spec'ed? Bruce [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#tabular
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