Re: rowIndex inconsistencies in the testsuite

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Faure" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Lars Knoll" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 6:22 PM
Subject: rowIndex inconsistencies in the testsuite


> On Tuesday 26 November 2002 23:51, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:29, David Faure wrote:
> > > Most of the failing table tests are due to the section reordering issue. I sent
> > > a mail to this list about it, but it remained unanswered. The subject line was
> > > "Order of table sections". I would be glad if this could trigger some discussion :)
> > 
> > Looking at [1], it appeared that this issue was closed at:
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2002OctDec/0044.html
> > It seemed like Mozilla and IE are following the same behavior here.
> 
> I'm now hitting a problem with rowIndex, which is answered in the above link.
> If I understand correctly, the new, and correct behaviour, is that rowIndex
> (quoting the DOM spec)
> "is in logical order and not in document order. The rowIndex does take into 
> account sections (THEAD, TFOOT, or TBODY) within the table, placing THEAD 
> rows first in the index, followed by TBODY rows, followed by TFOOT rows."
> 
> If that's the case, then I believe the tests HTMLCollection07 and 
> HTMLCollection08 have a bug, they expect the wrong value for rowIndex.
> (On the other hand HTMLTableRowElement01.html expects the right value,
> so there's currently no way to pass all those tests :)  ).
> 

     I agree with David that the tests are in error and should be changed.
     Before I make the changes does anyone else have any comments or objections?

Rick Rivello