[_jal]

If you added attributes for the number of rows and columns (something like <table ... rows="4" cols="4">), it could render it progressively.

I don't recall if that was vanilla HTML or vendor extension, I suspect not vanilla.

I stopped doing front end work about the time tables for layout went out of fashion, my dorky internal tools still use them.

[handy2000]

Not in the HTML 4.01 spec (https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html), so probably a vendor extension (don't think I ever used these attributes).