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Comment by nicoburns | Hacker News Reader

The specs really are drastically better than they used to be. Compare the modern specification for CSS Table Layout (https://www.w3.org/TR/css-tables-3/) with the older CSS2 one (https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html). The older one doesn't even attempt to define the "automatic layout algorithm" at all!

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What is this supposed to mean in the website?

   > Not Ready For Implementation

   > This spec is not yet ready for implementation. It exists in this repository to record the ideas and promote discussion.

   > Before attempting to implement this spec, please contact the CSSWG at www-style@w3.org.

It means that the web is built on top of a bunch of working draft specifications.

If you work in the web space you quickly learn to shrug, double check that browsers do actually implement this version, and proceed.

It means that the spec is a draft and that it hasn't been finished yet (there may still be bits missing or wrong). But it is clearly already so much better than the old version.

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