Re: Intent to unship: rowspan=0

2018-02-28 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:28 AM, Manish Goregaokar wrote: > You can already achieve this behavior with `rowspan=`, In terms of letting HTML validation produce useful results, telling authors to use a bogus large number is worse than having a special value (zero). If you use 0 and the table makes

Re: Intent to unship: rowspan=0

2018-02-27 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 2/27/18 5:28 PM, Manish Goregaokar wrote: You can already achieve this behavior with `rowspan=` Only if you can guarantee that this number is in fact larger than the number of rows in your rowgroup, yes? And even then, is it exactly equivalent? and we should encourage developers to use

Re: Intent to unship: rowspan=0

2018-02-27 Thread Manish Goregaokar
(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 wrote: > Gecko (and previously Presto) support setting `rowspan=0` in > non-quirksmode documents to mean "up to the end of the rowgroup" (fo

Intent to unship: rowspan=0

2018-02-27 Thread Manish Goregaokar
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. colsp