[Bug]: colwidth is not working with editable as false

[ashu12chi]

Which packages did you experience the bug in?

extension-table

What Tiptap version are you using?

2.0.3

What’s the bug you are facing?

When the editor is used with editable: false, the colwidth property on table-header is not working. The below image shows two editors, the first is editable and the second is read-only. In the first editor, the width of first column is respected but in the second editor, the width of first column is minimal to the width of content.

What browser are you using?

Chrome

Code example

https://codesandbox.io/s/affectionate-sea-2zln6e?file=/src/App.js

What did you expect to happen?

In both the cases, colwidth should be respected.

Anything to add? (optional)

On my further investigation in the issue, I found when resizable is set to false in the Table extension, the colwidth will not work for editable mode of editor also. As per this, when editor is set to be non-editable, the resizable is always false. As per this, I understand why this done and it is a desired behavior for me too.
The display of column-width is handled here, which will work only when resizable is used, which is not always desired.

The current workaround I am using to solve this issue is to pass handleWidth as zero for making table non-resizable in read-only mode but still make sure colwidth is respected. (For Original code - ref)

addProseMirrorPlugins() {
        const isResizable = this.options.resizable;
        return [
          ...(isResizable
            ? [
              columnResizing({
                handleWidth: this.editor.isEditable ? this.options.handleWidth : 0,
                cellMinWidth: this.options.cellMinWidth,
                // @ts-ignore (incorrect type)
                View: this.options.View,
                // TODO: PR for @types/prosemirror-tables
                // @ts-ignore (incorrect type)
                lastColumnResizable: this.options.lastColumnResizable,
              }),
            ]
            : []),
          tableEditing({
            allowTableNodeSelection: this.options.allowTableNodeSelection,
          }),
        ]
      },

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[sjdemartini]

@ashu12chi There's an old bug report for this that was closed as "won't fix" here #2041, which has had some further discussion.

One note on the workaround you mention above: I did something similar in my package mui-tiptap (https://github.com/sjdemartini/mui-tiptap) for its TableImproved extension where columnResizing is always registered. However, an important caveat is that this line in your example handleWidth: this.editor.isEditable ? this.options.handleWidth : 0 will prevent the handleWidth from having the right value if the editor changes between editable states. For instance, if you start in read-only mode, the handle width will forever be 0 even if you later switch to editable=true, since the plugin registration doesn't re-run when switching to editable states. Maybe not important for your use-case, but something to keep in mind. This can be worked around via CSS to hide the handle and prevent pointer interactions. I posted more details about the workaround I used here: #2041 (comment)