On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 11:25:45AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > Right now the @multitable HTML output table td or th elements width is > set with the width= attribute. This attribute is deprecated in favor of > using CSS, but to me this is highly debatable, as the width may be part > of the structure of the table as opposed to styling, more similar to the > colspan attribute. I hoped that this deprecation would be reverted as > has been the case for ol type (for which both CSS and attribute can be > used), but this has not happened for now.
All I can say is that the width attribute is not causing any problems except in rare cases like EPUB output, which we can work around in ext/epub3.pm, so we should just leave it alone as we have better things to worry about.
