On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Do we want to honor whitespaces in table cells or not?
>
> The main advantage of trimming them is to get aligned cell symbols.
>
> See http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0#section-Creole1.0-Tables
>
> Right now we're honoring whitespaces (they are significant).
>
> If we want to be consistent with normal wiki text we should honor them
> since we're honoring spaces in wiki text. However we just need to
> agree that it won't be possible to get nicely aligned cell delimiters
> then.
>
> WDYT?

One consideration. Right now you have to write the following:

|cell1|cell2|cell3

this is not very readable IMO compared to:

| cell1 | cell2 | cell3

However right now since whitspaces are honored if you write the latter  
you'll get:

<td>&nbsp;cell1&nbsp;</td> in XHTML.

Thanks
-Vincent
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