[html5] Grid Tag

[cr]

On Thu Aug 02, 2007 at 06:19:01PM -0400, Paul Rogers wrote:
> The Table tag has served as a kind of grid for a long time. However, It

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-interactive-elements.html#datagrid

> is difficult and confusing trying to span cells and load data in cells
> in unconventional ways. It would be nice if there were a new, similar
> tag named "grid" with cells that could be created and managed using cell
> indexes (numeric, id strings, DOM id's).
> 
> For example:
> <grid>
> <cell x="10" y="1">ten, one</cell>
> <cell x="1" y="10">one, ten</cell>
> <cell x="right" y="top">right, top</cell>
> </grid>
> 
> Or perhaps:
> <grid>
> <rw>
> <cl id="futureContent"/>
> </rw>
> <rw>
> <cl>initialContent</cl>
> <cl>Two</cl>
> <cl>Three</cl>
> </rw>
> <grid>
> 
> If adding such a tag is too much, then perhaps just simplifying the
> construction and management of grid-like tables would help.
> 
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