On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:11:23 +0200, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de gave utterance to the following:
Richard Grevers wrote:
Which raises the question of supporting <COL> elements. I don't think
<COLGROUP> is particularly useful, but <COL> is, and is fairly well supported.
Wasn't our original intention to *simplify* table markup? ;-)
There are cases where <COL> can considerably simplify table markup, e.g. <col class="foo"> rather than having to add class="foo" to every td in a column. Also, the width="*" mechanism is an exellent means of overcoming the vagaries when the various permitted width allocation algorithms are allowed to run wild.