[whatwg] Table integrity and conformance

[Henri Sivonen]

On Nov 10, 2006, at 02:12, fantasai wrote:

> Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> On Oct 27, 2006, at 16:21, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:17:16 +0200, Lachlan Hunt  
>>> <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote:
>>>> That's fine for document conformance, but what about how  
>>>> browsers will handle it?  Is the spec still going to require  
>>>> browsers to render overlapping cells, or would it be possible to  
>>>> resolve this difference between HTML and XHTML rendering, as  
>>>> documented in CSS 2.1 [1]?
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/mid/op.tfl2fqwu64w2qv@id-c0020.oslo.opera.com
>>>
>>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#q7
>> WHOA! How on earth did that end up in a CSS WG draft in general  
>> and in the CSS 2.1 draft in particular?
>
> Easy: it didn't get removed.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#q7

I hope that the CSS WG accepts Anne's objection and defines rendering  
in a browser-compatible way.

For the table integrity checker I implemented what browsers do: A  
cell slides to the right until there's a free slot for its top left  
corner. If the cell spans multiple columns and overlaps with a cell  
still in effect from an earlier row, it is an error, but doesn't  
cause the cell to move further to the right. Since browsers  
interoperate, I think it would be a bad idea to change this behavior.

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Henri Sivonen
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