- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 07:04:07 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
- CC: Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>
Mikko Rantalainen: > I consider colspan and rowspan as premature optimization. If you're > afraid of extra bytes to transfer, just apply compression. Reduntant > strings can be easily compressed. 'rowspan' and 'colspan' *are* a kind of (2D RLE) compression, which could easily be decompressed (at least in the case of 'colspan') if needed, but they additionally express connectiveness. > Any closing tag could be easily replaced with </> because it's clear > in XHTML anyway which starting tag it should be matched with... Yes, I never understood why it wasn't allowed (optionally) in XML. I can understand that other SHORTTAG features can be confusing and a little harder to parse and therefore were left out of XML (and thus XHTML), but not empty end tag (or whatever SGML actually calls it).
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