30419 - Table methods "insertRow()"/"insertCell()" should accept (-1) value to indicate "append at end"

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Taras Tielkes]

IE5 allows table rows and table cells to explicitly be appended to the end of 
the tablesection c.q. tablerow by passing a "index" of (-1). Although this is 
not in the Dom1/2 spec, it's a good idea imho.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Mozilla.org policy is, as far as I am aware, not to implement NS 4 or IE-specific 
features, but to stick to the defined standards. I am therefore marking this bug 
INVALID (don't take it personally; there isn't a more polite option ;-)

Gerv 

Comment 2

[Jan Carpenter]

Mass update of qa contact

Comment 3

[Jan Carpenter]

marking verified

Comment 4

[Laurent Pinchart]

The DOM2-HTML (Version 1.0 - W3C Candidate Recommendation 07 October 2002) 
states:

"insertRow
Insert a new empty row in the table. The new row is inserted immediately before 
and in the same section as the current indexth row in the table. If index is -1 
or equal to the number of rows, the new row is appended. In addition, when the 
table is empty the row is inserted into a TBODY which is created and inserted 
into the table."

Shouldn't this bug be reopened?

Comment 5

[Ruslan Ismailov]

*** Bug 188635 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Ruslan Ismailov]

Right now I see that this option implement in 1.3a branch. So maybe resolution
should be change in "fixed"?

Comment 7

[Taral]

Dupe it to bug 180709, which is where this was fixed.