- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:35:25 -0500
- To: Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wednesday 2008-12-31 17:27 -0800, Brad Kemper wrote: > On Dec 31, 2008, at 4:41 PM, L. David Baron wrote: >>> Although I do think that it should perhaps say something like that for >>> what happens if the character is not in the text of the table cell (I >>> haven't tested that, but in the most common use case of decimal >>> alignment, I image end-edge would be preferred, if there is not >>> decimal/period/full-stop character). >> >> Agreed that it needs to say something. (I vaguely remember brining >> that issue up many years ago.) For that case, the start-edge is >> probably preferred, so you get: >> $4.99 >> $50 > > I disagree. Consider a column with decimal alignment styling, that may > contain either decimals or integers, but usually not both in the same > table. I that case, I would want the following (numbers with no decimal) > to be right aligned: > > 599 > 6,000,000 > 20,272 > 5 Agreed. I meant to say end-edge but for some reason I wrote start-edge. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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