- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:14:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
- Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, David Poehlman wrote: > > could @summary not be taught to display to all? That would be ideal, but unfortunately, pages on the Web that use summary="" almost always use it incorrectly, with horrible values that aren't helpful to anyone, and thus we could never get browser vendors to actually do this. Having whatever solution we _do_ use, e.g. <caption>, be visible to all users from the beginning, ensures that all users get a better experience because bad summary="" text won't be created. (Authors typically write bad summary="" text for the same reason they write bad alt="" text -- they don't understand what they are doing, and have no way to test it. Visible text, they _do_ have a way to test.) Note that in HTML5, <caption> has been redefined to clearly include in its scope all the material that in HTML4 was only appropriate in summary="". -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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