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List:       mozilla-layout
Subject:    Re: Intent to unship: rowspan=0
From:       Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail () gmail ! com>
Date:       2018-02-28 17:25:53
Message-ID: CACpkpxmvfDoxOgo-duGRsvhp8oWNEkztf_arHb=1+CRrBVfRNw () mail ! gmail ! com
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> Is the only reason that no one else supports it?

Yes. (which makes me suspect that nobody uses it)


However, as mentioned, Chrome *has* added support, it's not stable yet.


-Manish Goregaokar

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 5:19 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 2/28/18 2:02 AM, Manish Goregaokar wrote:
>
>> Oh, you're asking for it to continue to work with semantic HTML?
>>
>
> I'm saying that this feature is there for actual data tables.  And that
> the suggestion that Grid is a replacement is not actually helpful given
> that.
>
> That won't work, you'd need to create a new table with grid stuff.
>>
>
> Seems to me that asking people to do this for an actual data table is just
> as bad as asking people to use tables for layout.  ;)
>
> In that case we probably shouldn't unship?
>>
>
> The one thing I haven't seen so far is why we should unship, really.  Is
> the only reason that no one else supports it?  (To be clear, this can
> absolutely be a valid reason, especially if the other UAs have explicitly
> said they will not add support or the feature causes some other problems
> too, in terms of either implementation or the health of the web.)
>
>
> -Boris
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