The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table”

Re:The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” by gsnedders on Monday October 27, 2014 @01:09PM (#8516716)

Even earlier, display: table was part of the original CSS Level 2 which became a REC in 1998 — twelve years before "responsive design" came into being. It largely followed what had been added to HTML 3.2 in January 1997 — based on what most browsers (with Netscape first) in 1996.

There's also a lot of unwillingness to do much around display: table — it remains largely unspecified (mostly because we basically know web compatibility requires you to do what IE6 does — and nobody knows quite what that is, and MS people have struggled to get permission to disclose the detail).

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Re:The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” by yuhong on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:42AM (#8519567)

At least it was mostly copied from Netscape, and source for that is available as Mozilla Classic (from the cancelled Mariner project). I used it to figure out where HTML legacy color parsing come from.

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Re:The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” by gsnedders on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @01:57PM (#8522368)

Sadly, we know that what web compat relies on isn't quite what NN4(-ish) does, so the mere fact that that is available doesn't really help too much. :(

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Re:The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” by yuhong on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @02:06PM (#8522442)

Actually, the same thing is true for HTML legacy color parsing too, but the only difference there is a few lines of code. I think it is these lines that was added (from http://mxr.mozilla.org/classic/source/lib/layout/layimage.c#...):

  if (bytes_per_val > 4)
  {
        bytes_per_val = 4;
  }

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Re:The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” by gsnedders on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @02:25PM (#8522571)

Table parsing is nowhere near that similar. It's almost certain IE's algorithm is largely different — it just obtains similar results to NN's in most cases.

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Re:The Anti-hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” by yuhong on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:52AM (#8519594)

But yea, I have been thinking of the idea of a IE only shared source program for a while now.

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