David, you should know by now that "deprecated presentational attributes
requested" are fighting words in the context of this thread, but I'd
like to discuss bug 371323 that you mentioned, instead.
I understand that as a volunteer contributor to an open-source project,
the type of work that you are interested in doing does affect what makes
it into the end product. On that note, I read the spec in the proposed
selectors4 draft for :column(). I'd like to encourage you to pursue that
implementation. I think that doing so will help both of us. It seems to
be defined well enough from a CSS perspective to let you write it in a
way that is compatible with the rest of your CSS engine. Once you have a
:-moz-column() pseudo-class selector in place, couldn't you just add
this set of rules to the internal Mozilla default stylesheet?
:-moz-column(col[align="left" ]) { text-align: left ; }
:-moz-column(col[align="center" ]) { text-align: center ; }
:-moz-column(col[align="right" ]) { text-align: right ; }
:-moz-column(col[align="justify" ]) { text-align: justify; }
:-moz-column(col[valign="top" ]) { vertical-align: top ; }
:-moz-column(col[valign="middle" ]) { vertical-align: middle ; }
:-moz-column(col[valign="bottom" ]) { vertical-align: bottom ; }
:-moz-column(col[valign="baseline"]) { vertical-align: baseline; }
Similar rules could be added for align/valign in colgroups:
:-moz-column(colgroup[align="left"] > col) { text-align: left; }
The downsides I see with this approach:
- it wouldn't cover align="char" and charoff
- I don't know if it'd be possible to handle cols with span defined
- assigning styles directly to the <col> element (e.g. col.style.textAlign =
"center") wouldn't update the style
The upsides to this approach:
- it'd probably be good enough for most of the people in this thread
- it would be fairly harmless to add at that point (via the default stylesheet)
- it would finally bring an end to 13 years of fighting over this damn bug.
So please, godspeed on bug 371323. :)
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