- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:32:45 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Dan Delaney <dan1@fluidmind.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Friday, April 2, 2004, 3:44:43 PM, Ian wrote: IH> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Dan Delaney wrote: >> >> I guess what it boils down to for me is this: in practical terms, Web >> designers need to be able to use, on COL and COLGROUP, all the styles >> they can use on TDs. IH> The working group agrees; unfortunately no-one has yet suggested a IH> practical solution to this problem. As I describe in: IH> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239130 IH> ...it is a problem with the entire way CSS works. I would say it is a problem with the way SGML and XML work. Tables are not treelike hierarchical structures. Attempting to model them as trees means that some properties of a table are lost. Usually, the fact that all cells are children of both a row and a column is the aspect that is lost. So there are no columns in the data structure. IH> I have yet to see a IH> workable solution (though many people have tried, over the years, to IH> develop solutions). IH> So, please propose a solution! -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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