Re: "Re: [CSS21] rules="all" attribute specification and border-collapse property"

Gérard Talbot wrote:
>> What am I missing ? I am of course most interested in which exact issue
> is specific to IE8.
> 
> Sylvain, I replied in bug 409470. There is nothing in the spec that
> indicates that rules="all" should *force* or should trigger
> border-collapse: collapse model. IE 8 rendering is illogical. If
> border-collapse: separate is the default browser declaration, then why
> declaring rules="all" should switch the border-collapse? It's not
> coherent.

There's nothing in the spec that says any of the trigger
border-collapse. It's just that in CSS you can't set
borders the way [rules="rows|cols|groups"] requires
unless you are in border-collapse mode.

~fantasai