Comment 388 for bug 353877

Apologies for any excessive snark in that last reply (and two volleys of bugspam), but there is a complete lack of semantic distinction to graduate to in order to meet reasonable presentational needs.

There may be a strong argument for a 'tn' (table numeric value) element in HTML5 for bare minimum numeric tabular data markup support (and consequential CSS alignment), even ignoring any need to align decimal characters or otherwise homogenize/improve the display of dissimilar/unsatisfactory numeric formats (like adding a printf-style format specifier to the col element). Allowing tr to directly contain elements like 'time' in HTML5 would be another practical solution. However, nothing like that exists today, or to my knowledge has even been fully proposed.