Subject: Re: Draft table spec
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 20:45:35 CST
First, let me say that I'm glad someone is starting to look at this -
so don't take my comments below as a "turn off" - just trying to
spark discussion...
At 5:43 PM -0500 1/16/01, Jeffry Smith wrote:
>Main differences from XHTML:
>1. all of the various things measured in pixels/percent (border, width, etc)
>now have a new element, units. This is the measurement for the item (mm,
>inches, pixels, etc).
Why? The standard CSS way to define measurements is to
include the units as part of the value (2in, 3mm, 10px, etc.). Is
there a good reason to break from the standard on this one?
>2. Added width & height elements to cells. This allows cells to be
>non-standard sizes.
The problem with that is that if you have a fixed sized cell
and the text can't fit into it - what happens? I've never found a
good use for fixed size cells, but I'm open for criticism on this one.
>3. Added a REPEAT element to colgroups, thead, and tbody. This is a binary
>element that indicates whether the element is repeated across pages or not
>("0" means don't repeat, "1" means repeat).
First, I'm unclear why this is an element and not an
attribute. Second, why use numbers instead of text. Remember that
XML is supposed to be human readable and a 1 or 0 wouldn't mean
anything to a human reading the document.
Leonard
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