I do not agree with the idea 2 since I think it will break several other pages and will reduce the flexibility of news_show_latest()

Also, the box model already accept multiple row. In an awkward way, but still it works. Doing the kind of modification are likely to break several other things.

I suggest that we just stick to basic fix, at least on trunk.

Proposal:

Modifying news_show_latest so it prints "</td></tr><tr><td>" the begin of any newline except the first one.

I do not remember exactly how looks like this function but I think it should be feasible. Moreover, it is in a similar way that multiples rows (that are in every tables) are handled. The issue here is only the fact it print from the start a <tr><td> while it should assume this is already done (like it already assumes that <table> is open).

I do not think the way the html output is implemented is wonderfull but changing it would require a dense work - so to avoid breaking other parts or break the logic of the whole thing, we should stick to it until we implement something different.

Regards,