- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 19:24:34 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > > It returns 0, because the table contains neither tbody nor tr > > children. > > I was wondering if that was desired. It was intended. Whether it is desired or not, I am not 100% sure. I'm open to alternate algorithms. > > As the spec says: The colspan and rowspan attributes are ignored by > > this algorithm. > > > > Datagrids in common GUIs aren't capable of complex column captions > > like the above. How would you change the spec to work with the above? > > Don't check THEAD for such data. This would mean having to do a search of every element in the <thead> before knowing whether to use it or not. This would be very bad for performance. Also, it's unclear to me what you would look for -- colspan attributes with values that don't convert to numeric 1? > And also, perhaps it would be useful to check COLGROUP and COL elements > first... Check them for what? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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