Safari and <colgroup>

[Ctawp]

Can anybody confirm that Safari has an issue with <colgroup> and similar html commands? And is there any loophole? :-) Thanks.

-Chris

[tedster]

I found this:

...question/comment about table-layout: fixed. If, within a table, one has colgroup and col id tags with IDs for defining widths in css:Safari 1.0 will not honor the column widths defined in the style sheet.

Mozillazine Post [weblogs.mozillazine.org]

Not surprising, since colgroup is a relatively new element and the spec is quite complex -- something like 24 valid attributes to support.

Sitepoint comments, with hope for the future:

Mozilla and Safari also have the "Almost Standards" mode, which affects table layout. All these are factors to be investigated and worked with before you make any long-term decisions on what DOCTYPE you'll use.

General rule of thumb: the "transitional" DOCTYPE may work better in an overall sense for coding today.

Sitepoint Reference [weblogs.mozillazine.org]