It is ignored in standards mode, as it should be.
What you're asking about is quirks mode behavior, and what matters for quirks mode behavior is what is required for existing important pages on the web to lay out correctly. New pages should use a DOCTYPE and thus be handled in standards mode.
ACK. A height with a percentage is completely ignored unless it's within an element of fixed height. F.e. the layout Neil has pointed me to works only in transitional html.
No, the specification is merely designed for document layout and being used for unintended things. New specifications are needed for new things, such as user-interface layout.
Well - the WWW has evolved into a platform to deliver all kinds of online services like auctions and whatnot. It works reasonably well with the old and dirty stuff like table layouts. If the cleaned up standards don't support features these services came to depend on (like vertically resizable layouts), they won't migrate.
You claim that you actually don't want them to migrate to sanitized html. That html should only be used for documents - as historically intended. I disagree. I think the chance of online services adopting standards like XUL is very low. If they change at all, they are far more likely to adopt a proprietary solution (most likely based on .net).
So personally I would prefer these pages to stay with HTML for a while. I'd like to see them sanitized and conforming to decent standards. IMO this requires that the kinds of layout commonly used should be supported by these standards.
The W3C and Mozilla should cater for their audience.
PS: I'm pretty disappointed that I cant do a simple three column layout like the one on radialthinking.de in strict html. _______________________________________________ mozilla-layout mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-layout
