- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:07:16 +0200
On Nov 15, 2004, at 01:09, Laurens Holst wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> See the illustration at >> http://www.hut.fi/u/hsivonen/misc/table-scroll/ >> The first image shows the entire (nested) table. The other images >> show how the headers and footer would interact with the viewport when >> scrolling. > > Wouldn't this encourage page authors to use tables for page layouts? It could. However, I think the benefit of having this feature for displaying tabular data is greater than the trouble it might cause for anti-layout-table activists. > Another thing is, is this something the WHATWG should specify, or is > it just a feature to implement for UA's? I think the right way to spec it would be as new values for the CSS 'display' property. So I guess www-style would be a better forum than this list. > And what in case there are two tables next to eachother which > partially overlap in the vertically? Perhaps that should be a condition for disabling the header/footer stickiness. Why would you make tables with real tabular data overlap? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://iki.fi/hsivonen/
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