- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:35:07 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>, jfoliot@stanford.edu, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
On Jul 8, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> >> Right now, the end of the section about how to provide explanatory >> information about tables currently says this: >> >> "If a table element has a summary attribute, the user agent may >> report >> the contents of that attribute to the user." >> >> I would suggest that the text from the obsolete features section >> could >> go here, to provide clearer guidance: [...] >> >> I think something like this would provide better guidance to authors. > > The section you quote is in the implementation-only part of the spec > (i.e. > it is hidden when you switch to the author view). Does that affect > your > suggestion? Yes. I think that makes it more important to give guidance to authors. If a feature is conforming but SHOULD NOT be used, then it seems important to directly give authors an explanation of what it does and why it should not be used. This will also help conformance checkers give authors the right advice. For many of the other obsolete features, the basic position is that they should not be used in new documents, but it may not be worth expending effort to purge them from old documents. So just labeling them obsolete gives enough guidance to authors and conformance checkers. But summary="" is not quite like that. Regards, Maciej
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