Comment 411 for bug 353877

(In reply to Wayne Pollock from comment #401)
> Brian's link to the w3.org bug was interesting, but all modern browser now
> support nth-child. I will just have to redo my web pages. *sigh*

As mentioned in that link, nth-child is not a solution, not due to lack of support though. There's a reason to one uses it.

Adding CSS somewhere, even when you can, to style a single table by column position (which can change as you author/update it), is unmaintainable at best.

Examine tables in the wild. It's all cell-by-cell attributes, either by CSS classes or alignment attributes. Think about how inefficient that is. All because no one takes this bug seriously.

(Almost impossible to add a comment to this bug in Firefox Mobile.)