Re: headers= and rowgroup

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:39:50 +0200, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>  
wrote:
> Please quote. I don't see anything that can be interpreted like that.

I quoted the definition of rowgroup before.


>> I'm not sure what the meaning of many features in HTML4 is when used in
>> non-typical ways. The specification is not really useful.
>
> It is not really useful to not want to make sense of it. And also, the  
> HTML5 draft does not say that rowgroup cannot be applied to THEAD/TFOOT.  
> So what would the improvement be?

The HTML5 algorithm is not yet good enough, but at least it's clear what  
it implies.


> The HTML5 draft isn't anymore spesific than HTML4 about which direction  
> scope="rowgroup" and scope="colgroup" goes. [...]
>>       If [TH] is in the row group state [...] let (1, groupy) be the
>>       slot at which the row group is anchored, let height be the
>>       number of rows in the row group, and assign the header cell
>>       to any data cells anchored at slots with coordinates (datax,
>>       datay) where headerx ≤ datax ≤ xmax and headery ≤ datay <
>>       groupy+height
>
> I am not sure if have got this part of the algorithm 100% correcty, but  
> my understanding is that the phrase «headerx ≤ datax ≤ xmax» tells which  
> _direction_ a header in «the row group state» has - namely horisontal  
> direction.

You completely read over the bit where it talks about "height" and  
"headery" for some reason.


> Why has that change been drafted?

HTML5 is written from scratch. (As in, it's not HTML4 + changes. And as  
such it may contain inconsistencies with HTML4 that are either desirable  
or not.)


> «rowgroup simply works»? Well, it «it simply works» in the Table  
> Inspector. I hope we can make into a tool we can trust.

I'm not sure that's possible for HTML4 given the lack of a proper  
specification. It's not entirely clear to me what you mean with "trust"  
either. The tool is open source and everyone can simply fork their own  
version.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Wednesday, 12 September 2007 14:53:53 UTC