[Bug 24641] Consider making border a boolean attribute

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24641

Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> changed:

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

--- Comment #3 from Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: none
Rationale:

If it is a genuinely a good idea to use the @border attribute to indicate that
a table is non-presentational, since the expectation is that table should never
be presentational, then the only logical choice would be to make table elements
that do not feature the @border attribute non-conforming.

Arguing for a heuristic based on what is de facto an obsolete feature is one
thing; changing said heuristic is another. Authors who wish to flag their
non-presentational table as non-presentational are already wasting 10
characters; it does not seem particularly useful to help them save 3 of those.

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Received on Friday, 28 February 2014 16:29:02 UTC