- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:01:48 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > If the chairs disagree, and believe that this is a non-technical issue, or > believe that technical issues should be resovled by vote, then I would > recommend having something like the following options: > > ( ) I support the design of the HTML4 working group. > (Including the summary="" attribute on tables.) > > ( ) I support the design currently in Ian's HTML5 proposal. > (Suggesting that tables should be described in captions.) > > ( ) I support the design currently in Rob's HTML5 proposal. > (Allowing summary="", but saying it doesn't work.) > > ( ) I have another proposal. Describe it below. Personally, I don't support the idea of combining the summary and caption together because their content and purpose are different, and so I don't think the spec should encourage it as the preferred solution. But I am also strongly opposed to pretending that summary="" is even a remotely acceptable solution, at least without any empirical data demonstrating that it is. I think the other solutions described for including explanatory text in the surrounding prose are acceptable and should be encouraged instead. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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