- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:34:43 -0800
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 11/27/12 10:50 PM, "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: >... > >Overall, I think this is a very awkward way of specifying >decimal-alignment and it doesn't really seem to fit a natural use >case; most numeric tables include the same number of decimal places >throughout a table for consistency. If there aren't other clear use >cases, I suggest this be dropped or at least moved to CSS4 Text. I agree with your assessment of the state of the specification on this feature, and I would not mind seeing this moved to CSS4 Text. Here's some additional information on use cases, though. Not all numeric tables can be aligned by enforcing the same number of decimal places. In some cases additional decimal places cannot be used, because that would indicate unwarranted precision. But the main use for decimal alignment is when there are additional non-numeric glyphs needed to be displayed in the list. Sometimes there's an asterisk or footnote marker noting more detail available, and it's often the case that negative numbers get parenthesized or bracketed. So perhaps the example should use a list like: $1.30 ($1.30)* $85 N/A ($.05)** Thanks, Alan
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