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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Benoit Rouits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: Abiword Dev List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: TABLEs support ? >Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:23:13 +0100 > >According to Benoit Rouits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 > >----------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word >unsubscribe in the message body. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
