- From: E. Stephen Mack <estephen@emf.net>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 03:00:45 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
In HTML 3.2, the TD and TH elements could take a width attribute. In HTML 4.0's draft specification, TD and TH elements can no longer take an attribute of width. Even with the introduction of COLGROUP and COLS, and the emphasis on faster display of tables, it seems that it is still useful to allow cell widths. Since COLGROUP and COLS are recommended but not required, and the two-pass method currently employed (which considers and honors cell widths) is still considered by HTML 4.0 as one of the two possible approaches to rendering a table, it seems premature to remove the cell elements' width attribute. Is there some resource or section that will give me more insight into why this attribute was removed from TD and TH? -- E. Stephen Mack <estephen@emf.net> http://www.emf.net/~estephen/
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