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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#tables Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#tables Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ Comment: Drop table vspace/hspace Posted from: 90.230.218.37 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.49 Safari/537.36 OPR/16.0.1196.45 (Edition Next)
[[ The table element's hspace attribute maps to the dimension properties 'margin-left' and 'margin-right' on the table element. The table element's vspace attribute maps to the dimension properties 'margin-top' and 'margin-bottom' on the table element. ]] Drop the above. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725646
So... any browser willing to make the first move?
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=277080 now has a patch for use counters.
The use counters showed relatively low usage: http://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/374 http://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/375 Based on this, I'm deprecating the attributes in Blink now: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/l3rZbX-BUaM/3iSlHsjmW0wJ Unless something comes up, removal should follow in a few months.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/13