- From: Bernd Mielke <bernd.mielke@snafu.de>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 15:30:58 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
- CC: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
Hi, I agree especially with the table background proposal, which would make this section at least implementable. IMHO, this is currently not the case. I see huge need here to fix the spec and a proposal which would perform as required. As I understand, currently IE and mozilla use a inheritance model for painting table backgrounds which contradicts the spec. If the w3c does not improve the quality of the spec really soon, there are good reasons to continue this, because one cannot implement a ambiguous spec. As heartily as I support the background proposal I oppose the fixed layout width proposal. Opera and mozilla implement this as required by the spec, so there are two interoperable implementations. I think the following message would be a desaster: as soon as you implement correctly the spec, we will change it. Further it would create two meanings of width:auto depending on the layout method which can't be good. So I would rather prefer a new width property which would allow the tables to stretch as blocks independent of the layout method. And this should go to CSS3 as the spec is now quite clear and implementable at this section. Bernd
Received on Friday, 23 August 2002 05:01:48 UTC