(Of course, this is contingent on the Chrome people agreeing to unship this
as well)

-Manish Goregaokar

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Manish Goregaokar <manishsm...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Gecko (and previously Presto) support setting `rowspan=0` in
> non-quirksmode documents to mean "up to the end of the rowgroup" (for rows
> not within rowgroups, this means that it spans up to the next rowgroup or
> the end of the table). It is equivalent to setting rowspan to a very large
> number.
>
> colspan=0 does not do this[1]
>
> Chrome/Blink very recently added support[2], but it's still in Canary, and
> I'd like to remove it from both browsers and the spec before it hits
> release.
>
> You can already achieve this behavior with `rowspan=<large number>`, and
> we should encourage developers to use Grid anyway, so I don't see much
> value in having this feature in and of itself. Given that it was only
> supported by one browser (us) for so many years, it's questionable whether
> it's used enough on the Web for it to be something we must keep for compat
> reasons.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>  [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1241840
>  [2]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=180722
>
>
> -Manish Goregaokar
>
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