- From: Dan B. <danb@kempt.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:27:50 -0500
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > ... > the problem is in the table structure as a whole. > > Basically, the HTML5 table model contains the principle that colspan > must not be used in vain. It is OK to make a cell extend to several > columns or, to use the HTML5 terms, to occupy several “slots,” but it is > not OK to create a column that exists *only* via colspan attributes, > without having real cells of its own. The rationale is that such > constructs make table structures unnecessarily complicated. And constructs like that (that rule from that principle) makes table-generation code even more unnecessarily complicated! Daniel
Received on Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:00:04 UTC