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Section 4.7 should add section similar to "Edits and lists" which will clarify how ins/del should be used in tables. Especially how to markup deleted cell, row and column in the table.
mass-move component to LC1
Do you have any examples of pages showing edits in a table?
Created attachment 1022 [details] HTML with revisions in table Please make your sickness bag ready before inspecting code. ;-)
I don't mean an example page, I mean a real Web page. Are there real pages on the Web where people have marked edits to a table where individual cells have been removed (but not an entire row or column, since that would be trivial to mark up)? I'm trying to determine whether this is a real problem.
Hi, I don't see how you can trivially markup deletion of whole column/row, content model doesn't permit enclosing <tr> in <del>. As to real pages -- I have seen a lot of documents with such change tracking and at some point almost everything is published on the Web or on intranet (using same Web technology) so there should be some guidance about this.
You'd do a whole row or column the same way you'd do a series of items in a list: just wrap the contents of each cell in that row or column with a <del> or <ins>. I would like to study an actual example of a page or document that indicates the addition or removal of a specific cell (not a row or column). I don't mind if it's a screenshot of some proprietary software, or an HTML page that does it today using invalid markup or <font>, or whatnot. But I need to see an example so that I can understand what it is people are trying to do that needs this. In the meantime: 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: Partially Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: I've added some text to explain how to mark up adding/removing a row or column; I haven't added anything about a single cell, due to lacking sufficient supporting material to explain the use case.
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6595. Check-in comment: Add informative text about editing tables http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6594&to=6595