[html4all] Headers= up
Leif Halvard Silli
lhs at malform.no
Fri Sep 7 22:10:27 PDT 2007
Rob, if you could cut some superfluous part of quotes, that would be appreciated.
To the issue:
On 2007-09-08 06:36:23 +0200 Robert Burns <rob at robburns.com> wrote:
> On close examination I think the HTML 4.01 algorithm should work perfectly
> with Anne's table with no scope attribute. James' implementation simply
> implements it incorrectly.
>
> The HTML 4.01 algorithm says:
>
> "The search in a given direction stops when the edge of the table is reached
> or when a data cell is found after a header cell."
>
> So the HTML 4 algorithm should not be including the Day 1, Day 2,, Day3,
> etc. headers. Though in fairness it also should not include the remarks and
> the other header cell in the THEAD< but I think that a generous reading of
> HTML4 would include those headers.
We must have the same amount of generousity to whichever spec we read ;-) Perhaps that is the trouble? :-D
I am not certain you are correct here. What you quoted above is merly step 1 of 5 possible steps in that algorithm. What is a direction stop? Could it mean that it has reached a kind of «axis»? (You could very well be correct, though, because Ferg is not focused on such tables as Anne's in his table explanations.)
How about having a look at that table with the table inspector of of juicy studio?`
<http://juicystudio.com/article/firefox-table-inspector.php>
>> On Sep 7, 2007, at 9:23 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>>> Rob, or anyone, there is small difference: HTML4 without @SCOPE shows
>>> more headers - but I think in this case the HTML5 show is better.
>>> Agree? (Chime in, you aural browsers users!) But what I wonders about:
>>> how do I make the same happen in HTML4? Hint: the challenge is the row
>>> with <th colspan="4">, which makes it impossible to use headers="".
>>>
>>> [1] <http://annevankesteren.nl/2007/09/tmb-overview>
>>> [2] <http://james.html5.org/tables/table_inspector.html>
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