[Bug 24647] Define table@border as explicit indication that the *borders* are meaningful

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24647

--- Comment #13 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> ---
(In reply to steve faulkner from comment #7)

> > I looked at the latest http://webdevdata.org data set and could find no such
> > correlation, in fact I found the opposite.
> 
> a link to the grep results:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/377471/border1.html

Ah, thanks for the examples!

> you can view the
> site page by getting the URL from the path string:
> 
> for example: 
> C:\Users\steven\Downloads\webdevdata.org-2013-10-30\webdevdata.org-2013-10-
> 30-231036\00\al-tagheer.com_00d1d0b582e294705574ce74e364275e.html.txt 
> 
> al-tagheer.com

It is a bit hard to interpret the results. E.g. take http://ntvtelugu.com. 

1. It contains a very complicated structure of layout tables.
2. However, in the middle of all those tables, there is a ”main content table”
with border="1". I say ”main content table” because if I look at the page in a
text browser, the border makes sense ... it draws my eyes to that table, as the
center - and perhaps the main content - of the page.
3. The table with border=1 has only two cells, spread on two rows ...  The top
heading cell says ”recent video updates” and a bottom cell turns out to contain
another table, in which each cells contains a description of a recent video.
4. The innter table in cell two has  cellpadding="6", which means that,
according to HTML5’s heuristics table, the it does not fit the bill of a table
that is ”probably a layout table”. 

Thus, for this one web site that I have inspected, I would say that my
inspection more or less confirms that the HTML5’s heuristics table is not that
bad ... it is quite correct.

Thus, I have still not seen a page layout table with border=1.

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Received on Friday, 14 February 2014 23:25:18 UTC