Closed Bug 1814346 Opened 2 years ago Closed 2 years ago

Implement the colspan attribute for the MathML <mtd> element

Categories

(Core :: MathML, enhancement)

enhancement

Tracking

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: fredw, Assigned: fredw)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

MathML3 provides a "columnspan" attribute for the <mtd> element and this is implemented in Firefox.

MathML Core aligns to the HTML name, which is "colspan": https://w3c.github.io/mathml-core/#entry-in-table-or-matrix-mtd

Chromium bug (with tests): https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4061476

This bug is about supporting "colspan" (and putting "columspan" under a flag, with a deprecation message / use counter).

That should be relatively easy to do (and would even simplify things if "columspan" is removed in the future):
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=columnspan&path=&case=true&regexp=false

@Emilio: What do you think about this? Is it worth filling a mozilla position issue? (we need to show interest from other browser vendors for Chromium's I2S).

Flags: needinfo?(emilio)

Yeah, I agree that it seems worth agreeing on the name between tables and mathml. The official way to requests position is indeed via the standards-position repo, so it'd be great to do that (I'll raise it internally in case anyone has objections, but I suspect we'd be positive)

Flags: needinfo?(emilio)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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