Re: [css4-text] text-align: auto

François REMY skriver:
>> Spreadsheet applications support automatic text alignment in cells.
>> That means numeric values are right-aligned and everything else is
>> left-aligned (or rather start-aligned). This is the default behavior.
>>
>> CSS has nothing like this.
>
> To my knowledge, no platform ever featured this kind of "automatic"
> text-alignement built-in. I believe CSS should not deal with the
> business logic of a particular app.
>
>
But is it "a particular app"? Think about how this would be useful for
authors in general.

Since it is already a convention, I imagine that many people would like
to have the same behavior in their own data tables.