- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:31:22 +0300
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
2012-09-03 3:11, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Per HTML5 spec, rowspan="0" should span to the end of the table section. This was the case already in HTML 4.01, though it was implemented slowly and was not much known among authors. > In any case, my suggestion is that in quirks mode, rowspan="0" not be > supported. Generally, attempts at defining "quirks mode" would mean making it an alternate mode and will not be successful due to the wide variation across browsers and versions. It's called "quirks" for a reason. Specifically, as some browsers already support rowspan="0" in quirks mode, and some don't, you cannot ensure backwards compatibility no matter how you define it. For the bulk of legacy pages, it does not really matter, as they do not use such attributes. So the question is really what happens to newer pages where people may have used them after observing that some browsers support them. The current situation is inconsistent across browsers, but it does not help to change it; it could break existing pages written to work on browsers that support rowspan="0" in quirks mode. Similar considerations apply to colspan="2". Yucca
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