- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:38:28 +1000
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Can we do that *and* continue to have @headers for those that need it? As I understand it, the proposal is that <th> in the first row and column are explicitly scoped to the row/column if @scope is omitted. This seems like a good fallback for UAs to implement. May encourage laziness in web developers, but if it improves accessibility it is still worth it. (Be better, perhaps, if authoring tools applied @scope by default). I don't understand the arguments for removing @headers though. Isn't it already implemented in most browsers? There seem enough cases here to warrant it's continued part in HTML. On 5/30/07, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2007 22:33:04 +0200, Laura Carlson > <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Headers and summary are two attributes that suffer horribly from > >> ignorance. I strongly feel that they'd be used more often if most > >> programmers actually knew they existed. > > So given that they are not used and are make authoring large tables a > nightmare why not define the implicit table model from HTML4 a bit more > explicit (as HTML5 does) and have AT vendors implement that? They might > even support current web content better. > > > -- > Anne van Kesteren > <http://annevankesteren.nl/> > <http://www.opera.com/> > >
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