Subject: Re: TABLEs support ?
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 07:23:13 CST
According to Benoit Rouits <Benoit.Rouits@cetelem.fr>:
> Hello,
> While abw files are XML like, I dont understand why it
> doesn't support TABLES like HTML
> <TABLE>
> <TR>
> <TD> like this </TD>
> </TR>
> </TABLE>
>
> I guess many discussed about it, but as i'm new to the ML,
> could somebody explain me why ?
Supporting table require implementing a layout engine that is able to handle
all the constrain that a Table push on the table, ie almost infinite nested
box with each his size constrain. Currently the layou engine does not do so.
The other problem is that we must be able to handle pretty much what every
competitor support in his own table model. HTML apparently have most of
them, but not all. And we must do that at the first implementation.
Hub
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