Re: [Phphtmllib-devel] more changes

[Tim M. <mo...@mr...>]

Walter A. Boring IV wrote:

> Howdy,
>   I'm working on adding lots more html_* helper functions with various
> "standard" params for each specific tag to be built.  One of the changes
> I am making to html_td() is to add specific commonly used params.
> Currently html_td() only accepts content.  This kinda sux.
> So I have come up with 
> html_td($class, $align, $width),
> params 4 through n are content.
> 
>   I thought about adding colspan as the 4th param, but in my experience,
> its not used as often as the other 3.

I would like to see the colspan parameter, personally.

> Also, according to the w3c spec
> width is depricated.  You should use a style="width:100px" to set the
> width of the td...but, how many ppl know to do that?  My guess is not
> many.  So this leads me to a gray area between the w3c, which I would
> like to conform to, and normal implementation of html.  Browsers still
> to this day are not very compliant in their implementation of the spec,
> so its hard to try and enforce an api to the libs that require
> conformance.  

Do most broswers support width in the <style> tag?  If so, I'd go with
the w3c and not have the width parameter.  I've learned to use more
<style> tags since you flag the other deprecated items I used to use
(<center>, <font>, etc.).

> So, for the time being I'm trying to take each tag as a case by case
> basis for conformance vs. implementation.  Hence my addition of the
> width param to html_td().
> 
> Also, note, this change to html_td() will break 1.1.x of the libs.
> folks will have to change their use of html_td().

As I said before, if your going to change the API, now's the time.
Just make sure that any API changes are well documented in the
Changlog/Readme file.

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