Re: Intent to unship: rowspan=0

On 02/28/2018 12:28 AM, Manish Goregaokar wrote:
> Yeah, it's specced: 
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/tables.html#attr-tdth-rowspan
> 
> Opened bug with same text here: 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441710

Thanks!

> I think the reasoning is in the email? Is there something more specific 
> you're looking for?

Yeah fair enough (I expected to mention your Servo table layout stuff, 
but I guess that's more off-topic than on-topic), sorry :)

  -- Emilio

> Thanks,
> 
> -Manish Goregaokar
> 
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Emilio Cobos Álvarez <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Manish,
> 
>     Can you open / link to a bug for this work?
> 
>     Also, is it on the spec? If so, probably spec issues need to be
>     filed if we really want it to get dropped?
> 
>     A bit of reasoning (I do know why from IRC, but you should probably
>     explain) about why would be helpful, too.
> 
>     It is indeed unfortunate that Blink added support for this just a
>     month before you intend to remove it, but probably as long as
>     they're willing to not ship it is fine.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>       -- Emilio
> 
> 
>     On 02/27/2018 11:31 PM, Manish Goregaokar wrote:
> 
>         (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
>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>         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
>             <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1241840>
>                [2]:
>             https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=180722
>             <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=180722>
> 
> 
>             -Manish Goregaokar
> 
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