[whatwg] [html5] 2.20.1. The datagrid element

[Ian Hickson]

On Sun, 1 May 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> I was thinking about checking descendents instead of children as last 
> option. Not sure how that is for performance though. Perhaps the 
> specification should be updated after real world problems have occured 
> with the current specification instead of thinking about real world 
> problems that might come to exist.

Yeah. (You'd also get into problems with nested tables, etc.)


> > > > As the spec says: The colspan and rowspan attributes are ignored 
> > > > by this algorithm.
> > > > 
> > > > Datagrids in common GUIs aren't capable of complex column captions 
> > > > like the above. How would you change the spec to work with the 
> > > > above?
> > > 
> > > Don't check THEAD for such data.
> > 
> > This would mean having to do a search of every element in the <thead> 
> > before knowing whether to use it or not. This would be very bad for 
> > performance. Also, it's unclear to me what you would look for -- 
> > colspan attributes with values that don't convert to numeric 1?
> 
> This would mean checking the first child of the TBODY element for the 
> amount of TD children it has. Not?

Oh you want to use the tbody for the cell count and the thead for the 
captions? I guess we could do that. It makes it simpler.

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