Re: Broken tables in HTML output

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Hi Pali,

Pali Rohar wrote on Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 11:01:42PM +0100:

> Seems that it is needed to put "border-bottom-style: solid"
> for rowspanned td element.  At least this is working in chrome.

That would further degrade the quality of the HTML code written by
mandoc.  As a rule, "style=" attributes should be avoided and CSS
should instead by used.  Unfortunately, that's not possible here
because the hard-coded presentational decisions like "draw a border
right here" are already contained in the tbl(7) input, and there
is no way to convert those purely presentational decisions of the
author into semantic or structural markup that could be handled
with CSS.

But at least the amount of "style=" attributes written should be
minimized.  Only those "style=" attributes should be written that
are required to correctly express the author's intent.

> And after playing a bit I was not able to achieve visible border
> when was specified for tr element.
> 
> It is possible such change in mandoc generator? I understand that
> current HTML output is (or you think) correct, but is unusable in
> chrome browser.  And chrome is one of the major browsers, so it
> should not be ignored.

If you think chrome is important, please report the bug with chrome,
because right now, it looks like mandoc output is correct and
chrome rendering is buggy.

Alternatively, please explain why you think that chrome rendering
is correct, and please explain in which way mandoc is violating
the HTML standard, according to your understanding of the standard.

Thanks,
  Ingo
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