8486 2009-12-13 13:37:13 +0000 Define inheritance of lang, dir, style, and presatational attributes (HTML4 §11.3.2.1 "Inheritance of alignment specifications") [ms] 2010-10-04 14:47:54 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#tabular-data P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike Ms2ger public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 30111 0 contributor 2009-12-13 13:37:13 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#tabular-data Comment: Define inheritance of lang, dir, style, and presatational attributes (HTML4 §11.3.2.1 "Inheritance of alignment specifications") [ms] Posted from: 91.180.138.210 30596 1 ian 2010-01-06 07:52:53 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Did Not Understand Request Change Description: no spec change Rationale: In what sense is this not already done? Could you give an example of a Web page whose processing isn't defined? 30672 2 Ms2ger 2010-01-06 12:30:10 +0000 It's defined, but in a counter-intuitive way. Given the code <table lang=en> <col><col><col lang=de> <tr> <td>Foo <td>Bar <td>B&auml;z </table> According to HTML5, the language of "Bäz" is English. HTML4 defines it to be German, which is probably closer to the author's intention. 31510 3 ian 2010-02-05 20:44:52 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: Ah, indeed. Yes, HTML4's processing would be ideal. However, as far as I can tell it's still not what browsers implement, and they've had more than a decade, so I don't see much point in continuing to insist on this. If you would like this changed, I recommend pushing on browser vendors first.