Re: [PATCH] git_blame2: fix rendering on Firefox 3.0b5

From: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 22, 2008, 17:46 UTC
Message-ID: <e06498070804221046j5b9d4edbwe798ddb44f4fecf8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200804221905.41963.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, 22 April 2008, stevenrwalter@gmail.com wrote:
>  > Using variably-sized rows and rowspan does not render correctly with
>  > Firefox 3.0b5.  Instead, make each row have the same number of cells.
>
>  Beta version of Firefox doesn't correctly render perfectly valid HTML;
>  more, the way rowspan was meanto to be used, see example in
>
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.6.1
>   (subsection "Cells that span several rows or columns" in HTML 4.01)
>
>  and you want gitweb to generate invalid HTML?

What's invalid about the way my patch generated HTML? It renders correctly on both FF2 and FF3. It may have been fully correct before, but is it any less correct now?

Conversely, I will also file a bug with Firefox regarding it's apparently-broken handling of rowspan.

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-Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>