- From: nir dagan <dagan@upf.es>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 20:09:13 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
- Cc: dagan@upf.es
I wonder about a few things concerning HTML tables. I hope someone would enlighten me. 1. The TFOOT element must come before the TBODY. The motivation is faster rendering. Problem: It consititutes a severe backward compatibility problem with HTML 3.2. HTML 3.2 browsers will show the rows of the TFOOT before the rows of TBODY. Authors should take this in mind. 2. The (deprecated) align attribute in the TABLE element. It doesn't looks from the spec as well as the HTML 3.2 spec like floating but more like the "text-align" of headings H1...H6 or P (paragraphs). On the other hand it is implemented as floating by the popular graphical browsers. Did these browsers got the HTML 3.2 spec wrong, or I did? (they probably implemented tables, before there was a table spec o begin with) 3. The optionality of end tags of TFOOT and THEAD is a big mess and cannot be defined in the DTD. Wouldn't have it been less confusing to make them required? 4. The chapter on tables in the spec. is Chapter 11. Is that intentional? :-) Nir Dagan email: dagan@upf.es URL: http://www.econ.upf.es/%7Edagan/
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