version 3 table cell styling

[snotmare]

Greetings!

We currently are using version 2.2.1 for our customer website, but I've been tinkered a little bit with the latest dev release of primefaces (3.0.M3). I love a majority of the changes you guys are making. Great job! However, I'm a little miffed about one of them that I've run into issues with so far.

When using the dataTable, I provide my columns with width percentages like this...

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<p:dataTable... >
<p:column style="width: 25%;">Column1</p:column>
<p:column style="width: 50%;">Column2</p:column>
<p:column style="width: 25%;">Column3</p:column>
</p:dataTable>

In version 2.2.1, the width styling is applied directly to the <td> tag. In version 3, the style is applied to a <div> within the <td> tag like this...

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<table>
<tr>
<td><div style="width: 25%">Column1</div></td>
<td><div style="width: 50%">Column2</div></td>
<td><div style="width: 25%">Column3</div></td>
</tr>
</table>

The result is that my values are now sized to a percentage of the cell rather than the table.

Is this the way table cells will work going forward? If so, how can I apply a style directly to the cell? Also, various other JSF libraries apply the style directly to the cell (tomahawk comes to mind), so switching to primefaces would make that a little harder.

What are the chances that you guys will change this back?

[cagatay.civici]

Set your table width to auto to make this behave as expected, divs in th are vital to make several functionalities work cross browser.