Re: [g-a-devel] Tables in ATK/AT-SPI with rowspan/colspan

[Bill Haneman <gnome billhaneman ie>]

AccessibleTable was designed to handle HTML tables with row/column span.

That's what the ...getRowExtents and ...getColumnExtents are for.

Bill

Peter Korn wrote:
> Hi Harry,
>
> Sorry for being a while to respond - I've been on vacation, and now just 
> catching up on old e-mail.  Did the meeting happen? 
>
> I think the basic issue is that while AccessibleTable was designed with 
> row & column spanning in mind, we are diverging from some of these APIs 
> in the gecko implementation, as worked out by Willie & a Aaron and a 
> bunch of other folks.
>
> So... I'm not quite sure where this stands; whether this is part of the 
> divergence or not.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>   
> > OK, I see the problem.
> >
> > Evan,  could you please have a discussion meeting with Ginn, Li Yuan 
> > and Jeff together to see whether you could find a solution? Please 
> > send the results back to this list.
> >
> > Bill, Peter and Willie, we'd like to hear your feedback for this 
> > issue, too.
> >
> > Harry
> >
> > Evan Yan :
> >     
> > > Hi Harry,
> > >
> > > Harry Lu wrote:
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > Li Yuan has taken over atk/at-spi. Now is weekend early morning for
> > > > him:)
> > > >
> > > > As far as I know, it has such an assumption. One table cell could itself
> > > > be a table, so this way we could make a complex table.
> > > >
> > > > Are you meeting any problems?
> > > >   
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > Actually we got a bug about exposing table cell with rowspan/colspan
> > > attributes in html.
> > > We want to hear more comments about how we should expose such kind of
> > > table cells.
> > >
> > > For more detailed info,
> > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375934
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Evan
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > Harry
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 10:41 -0400, Aaron Leventhal wrote:
> > > >   
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > > > Buehler? Buehler?
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there anyone to advise on ATK/AT-SPI usage anymore, now that Bill 
> > > > > Haneman is away?
> > > > >
> > > > > - Aaron
> > > > >
> > > > > Aaron Leventhal wrote:
> > > > >     
> > > > >       
> > > > >           
> > > > > > Is there anything in the design that assumes tables are a perfect 2 
> > > > > > dimensional array?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Aaron
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