- From: Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giovanni@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:55:07 +0200
2009/6/10 Dahal, Biswa <biswa-dahal at uiowa.edu>: > Hi, > > > > I am a developer and as I was going through the draft for HTML 5 at: > http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/#tabular-data, I could not find a common > use-case that should be supported. > That is not the HTML5 draft, that is the HTML5 for Authors (a guide, in practice, not a normative specification). The HTML5 draft is at http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec > > My recommendation is to add an attribute ?scroll: scolling (default) | > fixed? in <thead> and <tfoot> to allow them to be fixed (non scrolling > headers / footers ). This is currently performed through CSS hacks and is > not consistent across browser implementations. ?Example CSS implementation: > http://www.ssi-developer.net/css/non-scrolling-table-hdr.shtml to understand > the effect. Alternatively, you can open Excel and use ?freeze panes? to view > the effect. > This does not belong to HTML, it belongs to CSS Tables Level 3, in defining the meaning of height and overflow for table-row-groups (currently undefined). You should forward this suggestion to www-style at w3.org > > Please let me know if you acknowledge this. > > > > Thanks, > > BD > > Software Developer > > Giovanni
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