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Re: Amaya 9.99-2 WinXP possible bug: creating a table

From: Irene Vatton <vatton@inrialpes.fr>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 12:11:17 +0200
To: Bartolomé Sintes Marco <bartolomesintes@ono.com>
Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <200711071111.17690.vatton@inrialpes.fr>

On Monday 05 November 2007 16:51, Bartolomé Sintes Marco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Amaya 9.99-2 WinXP when a table is created a style="width=100%"
> attribute is created. Previous Amaya versions did not created this
> attribute.
>
> In my opinion, Amaya should not add attributes to the elements, except
> the compulsory ones. I can understand a few exceptions like border
> attributes in tables and width and height attributes in images (even if
> I do not like them very much), but I do not like attributes like
> style="width=100%" in tables because it can confuse users. 
This was a request of somes users.
I guess the solution is to provide an option in the table dialog.

> For example, 
> my pupils get confused when the width css property did not work with
> tables, until we discovered there was an style attribute in the table.
>
> Best regards,
> Barto

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     Irène.
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