- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 20:02:40 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > I was thinking about checking descendents instead of children as last > option. Not sure how that is for performance though. Perhaps the > specification should be updated after real world problems have occured > with the current specification instead of thinking about real world > problems that might come to exist. Yeah. (You'd also get into problems with nested tables, etc.) > > > > 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? > > This would mean checking the first child of the TBODY element for the > amount of TD children it has. Not? Oh you want to use the tbody for the cell count and the thead for the captions? I guess we could do that. It makes it simpler. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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