- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:11:05 +0200
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Orion Adrian wrote: >Seriously why are they necessary? This is a problem created by >non-semantic tables, not by actual need. HTML tables are still >presentational and therefore this need for nth-last-of-child() is >because HTML tables are presentational. Get them to fix it, leave CSS >alone. > > I don’t know if :nth-last-child() is aimed at HTML tables??? I don’t see how, what makes you think so? Given that the selectors are CSS3 and it will still take a one or two years (with luck) before CSS3 Selectors is broadly implemented (:nth-child is implemented by very few browsers right now, excluding IE, Mozilla and Opera), I sincerely doubt those selectors were meant to solve anything having to do with HTML. I also can’t really think of a good use-case for :nth-last-child(), not for use with tables either. :nth-child() is a different matter of course, that is particularly useful for tables and lists (among other things). Finally, I wonder what is so presentational about HTML tables? They look fine to me, for tabular data. ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laurens Holst, student, university of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Website: www.grauw.nl. Backbase employee; www.backbase.com.
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