- From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 23:36:54 -0800
On Nov 4, 2006, at 1:53 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > None of Opera 9.02, Firefox 2.0, IE7 and Safari 2.0.4 implement > colspan="0" as specified in HTML 4.01. Trident, Presto and WebKit at > least agree on what to do with it: they treat it like colspan="1". > > I suggest that only positive integers be conforming and that > non-conforming values be treated as 1. > ... I know browser vendors have had a long time to implement this, but still, I think giving up on it would be a shame. The number of rows or columns in a table is often rather expensive to calculate ahead of time. As long as this has to be done to calculate the rowspan= or colspan= of header cells, this can substantially increase the time an application takes to generate a table. For the browser to interpret colspan="0" or rowspan="0" instead would both make life easier for application authors, and make such pages faster overall. -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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