- From: Ms2ger <ms2ger@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 21:16:01 +0100
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>, www-style@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2014 08:20 PM, Simon Sapin wrote: > On 27/11/14 18:00, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> On 11/27/14, 12:30 PM, Simon Sapin wrote: >>> This does not say *how* the space is distributed. I assumed it >>> was equally, but Firefox, Chromium, Safari and IE seem to have >>> interop to make it proportional to the widths of the columns >>> “so far”. >> >> The web depends on this proportionality behavior. > > Let’s make an errata to disambiguate the spec. Proposed change: > replace > >> If the table is wider than the columns, the extra space should >> be distributed over the columns. > > with > >> If the table is wider than the columns, the extra space should >> be distributed over the columns proportionally to the respective >> column widths. > > Is this precise enough, or should the spec spell out the math? > I would at least use "MUST" rather than "SHOULD", given the web compat constraints. HTH Ms2ger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUd4aBAAoJEOXgvIL+s8n2ckcIAJCFgooe8ME4TMFyWv2StRta lf8p9tY45jQAykAOyp7JB/F8ymR3CHg6rXQEFqWcKlCDaIm9owTZdWEVY0anLPtW vKU4DzqBMP4Ae7TCnmz6UiVHipIHMwWz08CmMCpqPuLl/2VLp+jjHwEt9pPcGCiC Fi9D56Jn4ED7s0m2J6kl/K+ACSDzvFvD07+xPBU0dwZIIcNdULhRm8NaVg1XoXY5 EhjAmzNSUvXzPboGGf+rJcEVwSN08m9H0ciIcHYAsAnShX01HPtV8ZP/HArYURZ1 5jwzPUY3nEumCLBNq8ZaxMrXOkF8IE3h4V2sIGVqIOjTg/TqHgVxqWiE6wDEfxo= =tcUp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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