Re: CSS & tables

On 18/5/09 08:03, Jim Lucas wrote:

all major browser vendors don't even support CSS1 or CSS2 completely/correctly yet.

I don't think any browser vendor intends to implement the original CSS2 Recommendation; instead they are aiming for compliance with the CSS 2.1 revision. We do have /very/ nearly complete implementations of CSS 2.1 from all major browser vendors. This was the state of play /before/ IE8 - already pretty good: http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-css Now: Opera: http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto211/#css IE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024(VS.85).aspx Safari: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariCSSRef/Articles/StandardCSSProperties.html Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS_Reference There a couple missing pieces - for example, in the upcoming Firefox 3.5, "The :before and :after pseudo-elements have been updated to full CSS 2.1 support, adding support for the position, float, list-style-*, and some display properties." https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.5_for_developers But all in all, vendor support for CSS 2.1 is arguably now as good as or better than for HTML 4.01. Also, the fact that CSS2.1 implementation is not complete has not dissuaded browser vendors from experimenting with implementations of CSS3 drafts (e.g. "border-radius", "text-overflow"). -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis