Re: Intent to unship: rowspan=0

Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Feb 2018 23:18:11 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.layout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/27/18 5:28 PM, Manish Goregaokar wrote:

> You can already achieve this behavior with `rowspan=<large number>`

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 Grid anyway

What does that have to do with anything?  This feature is for semantic 
tables where you want a cell (e.g. one labeling something about an 
entire rowgroup) to span to the end of the rowgroup.

> it's questionable whether it's used
> enough on the Web for it to be something we must keep for compat reasons.

Have we tried doing actual telemetry here?

-Boris