[Bug 7633] The use of @summary should be encouraged when circumstances warrant

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7633


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #5 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-09-21 11:34:11 ---
Only a very naïve reading would lead to the conclusion that the summary=""
attribute is _not_ an exception: it doesn't say "should not", it says that the
attribute is defined elsewhere, and it is in green non-normative text with the
word "Note:" in front of it. This basically all but screams "this is an
exception".

We don't want to make it sound like it's ok to use the summary="" attribute;
even though it is technically conforming and not technically obsolete, it's
still strongly discouraged. It would be counter-productive to make it sound
like it was ok.

We could make it obsolete again, if the problem is that it is an exception.
That would be certainly much preferable to me than removing this sentence or
making it even weaker.


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