Subject: Re: TABLEs support ?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 05:24:59 CST
Patience my friend. We're working as hard as we can to get 1.0
finished. Then we'll do tables. If you want to hurry us along, you can
help out by triaging bugs in bugzilla so we can easily find the bad bugs
and ignore entries that already been fixed.
That would help us much more than another nag about Tables. We know you
wants. We want Tables too. Help us with the bugs and we'll all get Tables
sooner.
Cheers
Martin
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Ancient Computers wrote:
>
> 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 <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
> >To: Benoit Rouits <Benoit.Rouits@cetelem.fr>
> >CC: Abiword Dev List <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> >Subject: Re: TABLEs support ?
> >Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:23:13 +0100
> >
> >According to Benoit Rouits <Benoit.Rouits@cetelem.fr>:
> > > 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
> >
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