- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 03:10:17 +0200
On Nov 8, 2006, at 02:59, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Oct 23, 2006, at 21:31, Ian Hickson wrote: >> >>> I think cells extending (via colspan/rowspan) into columns or >>> rows that >>> contain no cells other than extended cells should be at least a >>> SHOULD >>> NOT, maybe a MUST NOT. >> >> Wouldn't it be sufficient and more desirable to require each row >> to have at >> least one cell that starts on that row and each column to have at >> least one >> cell that starts in that column? (By starts I mean having the top >> left corner >> there.) >> >> This would allow tables like this: >> 112 >> 344 >> and >> 12 >> 13 >> 43 >> (Where numbers denote cells so that 11 means a cell spanning two >> columns.) > > What's the difference? Your formulation seemed to require at least one non-extended (i.e. colspan="1" rowspan="1") cell on each row and column, unless by "extending into" you didn't mean the row/column on which the cell starts. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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