- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:13:20 -0400
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Simon Pieters wrote: > Yes I think so. Having differences between the modes when not needed is > not nice. In fact, having multiple modes at all sucks. Agreed, but here we are... > I thought browsers used css3-color rather than HTML4 color. Nevertheless... the color wasn't a css3-color either. And no, for HTML attributes browsers don't necessarily use css3-color. Certainly Gecko doesn't. >>>> 7) rowspan/colspan="0" handled differently in quirks mode >>> I think rowspan and colspan can work the same in both (as specced in >>> HTML5). >> >> I haven't had a chance to look at the html5 spec, but treating >> rowspan/colspan="0" per HTML4 spec in quirks mode caused a lot of >> grief last time it was tried. > > You'd do the opposite: treat rowspan/colspan="0" per quirks mode (or > HTML5) in standards mode. That would break standards pages that depend on the correct HTML4 handling (and they do exist, by the way). We don't want to be going there, I don't think. Note that the current http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular.html still has zero rowspans (though not zero colspans for reasons that escape me). -Boris
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