   From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005
00:10:52 +0000 (UTC) To: ray whitfield <raylwhitfield@gmail.com>
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<Pine.LNX.4.61.0506282359240.29439@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>  On
Tue, 28 Jun 2005, ray whitfield wrote: > I really do not
understand the resistance or claims of difficulty  > related to
adding additional properties to the col and colgroup  >
elements. UAs already have to support background-color, border,
width  > and visibility; all of these except background effect
the cell size.  > Determining the inheritance of these
properties has not proved too  > difficult to implement nor
required additional clarification in the CSS  > specification.
Yeah. You know why? Because the spec doesn't define how it
works. And thus  every user agent does it slightly differently.
The problem is that 'color' is an inherited property.
Inheritance is done  before layout (it has to be, since the
layout depends on inheritance).  You don't know what is a column
until you've done the layout. To make  '