- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:40:23 -0700
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: "Grant, Melinda" <melinda.grant@hp.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
fantasai wrote:
> Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
>>
>> This discussion reminded me one problem I wanted to ask while ago.
>>
>> Are there any plans to support not only counters() but some
>> other accumulators, for example "total of the page" kind of things?
>>
>> Sort of:
>>
>> @media printer
>> {
>> td.total { content: page-sum-of( $(td.row-total):value ); }
>> }
>>
>> with the markup:
>>
>> <tfoot>
>> <tr>...<td .total>(total on the page here)</td></tr>
>> </tfoot>
>>
>> Or is this too much?
>
> I think spreadsheet-like calculations are out-of-scope for CSS.
I haven't heard about any spreadsheet application capable to do
"totals-of-the-page".
>
> However, there are some proposals for more functionality from
> counters, e.g. the target-counter() function
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-gcpm/#cross-references
> and I think there was one for a last-count() or max-count()
> function to grab the highest counter value.
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Oct/0103.html
>
I do not understand how sum() is in principle different from count().
First one is a += b; and second is a += 1;
The problem is that printing is not that media where JS even exists.
Anyway thanks.
> ~fantasai
>
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Received on Friday, 24 April 2009 04:40:41 UTC