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Subject: empty rows/cells, etc.
Hi all, I had a look at empty and incomplete table rows; in OOo Writer and Calc, and in Mozilla Browser and Composer. Briefly said, the result is that each application interprets empty and incomplete rows in a way consistent with how the application operates. OOo Calc has the typical spreadsheet structure, where the document is a large (sort of infinite) table. Typically, the 'default' table extends significantly beyond the used area, and contains empty cells. Calc (like most spreadsheets) never abandons this table structure. Empty rows in the format introduce a default row (just as in an empty sheet), and incomplete rows are filled with empty cells (just like in an empty sheet). All other applications have fixed size tables. Incomplete rows are basically rendered as if they had the necessary number of empty cells; same for empty rows. (Slightly more precise: A real empty cell has the default cell padding, while an implied empty cells doesn't get any padding.) An empty cell in Mozilla Navigator takes up no space, which means that an empty row has no height. In Writer and Mozilla Composer, an empty cell takes up the space of an empty paragraph, so that the user could just click into it and fill the empty cell. So the difference in this case appears not to be between HTML vs OOo format, but more between viewer and editor. Well... I don't really have a change proposal, since teh above makes sense to me. I suggest that the spec have clear wording that empty or incomplete rows are allowed. Sincerely, Daniel
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