- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:33:06 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org
On 03/23/2011 12:00 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Leif Halvard Silli > <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: >> Tab Atkins Jr., Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:25:13 -0700: >>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Leif Halvard Silli >>> <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: >>>> Ian Hickson, Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:06:47 +0000 (UTC): >>>> [...] >>>> >>>>> RATIONALE >>>> [...] >>>>> Non-CSS UAs [ snip ] can already draw table >>>>> borders on tables, so adding a presentational attribute for this purpose >>>>> adds nothing for them. [...] >>>> >>>> What use is there in having non-CSS UAs that are able to draw borders, >>>> if authors aren't allowed to use the very HTML feature that triggers >>>> them to actually draw them? >>>> >>>> Non-CSS UAS do not draw a single border unless one sets the border >>>> attribute to a non-zero value. The default styling of tables, is to not >>>> display the border. >>> >>> The point is that non-CSS UAs can (and, apparently, *should*) >> >> Were is the "apparently" coming from? > > It seems apparent that non-CSS UAs should display a border on tables > automatically. Any chance that the ISSUE-155 counter proposal could get updated to propose a change to the draft specification mention this explicitly? If not, would anybody be willing to propose a separate change proposal that does this? - Sam Ruby
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