Subject: Re: TABLEs support ?
From: Ancient Computers (arcadepreserv@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 05:18:33 CST
Why must everything be supported in the first version ? Cant extra features
not supported by HTML just be extra tags, ignored by the drawing machine
until supported. Incomplete tables support is better than none IMO.
Personally I have never used a feature in tables in a word processor that
cant be described with HTML, can someone give an example of this (not saying
that I dont think it exists, just curious)?
>From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
>To: Benoit Rouits <Benoit.Rouits@cetelem.fr>
>CC: Abiword Dev List <abiword-user@abisource.com>
>Subject: Re: TABLEs support ?
>Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:23:13 +0100
>
>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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