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- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:43:33 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12939 Summary: The <COL> group used to be defined as a very useful to represent tabular data. Among the various things needed for tabular data perusing is the data alignment. In v4.01 there is an "align" and a "char" attribute that make the <COL> attribute very useful t Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top Comment: The <COL> group used to be defined as a very useful to represent tabular data. Among the various things needed for tabular data perusing is the data alignment. In v4.01 there is an "align" and a "char" attribute that make the <COL> attribute very useful to programmers, even if only implemented in MS IE. In this way a programmer defines the column rendering stuff *once and before* the data itself gets generated. Now in v5-draft there's nothing at all, only standard attributes and the span. In my opinion, the <COL> tags makes very little sense, if any, without the rendering attributes. In absence of the rendering attributes in the COL tag, the rendering instructions need to be repeated on a per table cell basis, thus creating HTML bloat, useless extra complexity in the document and, finally, a major penalty in the rendering effectiveness. Posted from: 151.75.227.170 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.91 Safari/534.30 -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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