> Have we tried doing actual telemetry here?

No, though we could. I'm skeptical given that no other browser implemented
it.

> What does that have to do with anything?

Given that we're the only browser implementing it until chrome (and likely
webkit?) ships it in a few months, it's as if it is a new feature for the
web, hence the suggestion to use Grid.


-Manish Goregaokar

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 2/27/18 5:28 PM, Manish Goregaokar wrote:
>
> You can already achieve this behavior with `rowspan=<large number>`
>>
>
> Only if you can guarantee that this number is in fact larger than the
> number of rows in your rowgroup, yes?
>
> And even then, is it exactly equivalent?
>
> and we should encourage developers to use Grid anyway
>>
>
> What does that have to do with anything?  This feature is for semantic
> tables where you want a cell (e.g. one labeling something about an entire
> rowgroup) to span to the end of the rowgroup.
>
> it's questionable whether it's used
>> enough on the Web for it to be something we must keep for compat reasons.
>>
>
> Have we tried doing actual telemetry here?
>
> -Boris
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