- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:10:11 -0500
- To: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Jun 27, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > > At 22:19 +0200 UTC, on 2007-06-25, James Graham wrote: > > [...] > >> <p id="descWidgetSales">The table shows the sales of widgets for the >> financial year 2005-2006. <span style="display:none">The columns >> indicate sales in different regions and the rows indicate the >> months of >> the year. The last row and last column show a total for the month or >> region.</span></p> >> <table description="descWidgetSales">[...]</table> >> >> This has several disadvantages; [...] > > One disadvantage you don't list is that this is CSS-dependant. It's also an ad hoc solution to replace a solution that's already a part of the language in HTML4.01. To me that's a step backwards. We could after all, just replace everything with <div> and <span> and have a deal with everything else through CSS and scripts. No one wants that. Take care, Rob
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