- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 11:57:24 -0800
- To: <neil@bigpic.com>
- Cc: "Style" <www-style@w3.org>
<<Tables are one of my biggest concenrs. What will likely happen if the TABLE standard is dropped that our implementation will have to extend the CSS spec in order to support tables and the HTML drafts cannot get rid of special TABLE formatting.>> My hope is that there will be a major revise of this section before the spec goes into 'recommendation' status. Tables should be dealt with in a generalized way that least impacts the foundations of the spec. Making it possible to describe HTML table formatting in terms of CSS declarations is critical, putting arbitrary limits on the possibilities is not. If a good model creates expanded formatting power in CSS -- such as padding on the TABLE element -- so be it. UAs will just have to revise their table-rendering strategies to display it. Trying to warp the model to fit the limitations of HTML attributes or existing table-rendering code is a serious mistake. David Perrell
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