- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:30:21 +0200
- To: "Shelley Powers" <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Steve Axthelm" <steveax@pobox.com>, "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "HTMLWG WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:10:34 +0200, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com> wrote: >> It has been argued that summaries would likely be more useful on >> avarage if >> they were visible by default. It has also been argued that some >> summaries >> are useful also to visual users. These are two reasons why HTML5 >> proposes to >> put the summary in <caption>, AIUI. >> >> -- >> Simon Pieters >> Opera Software >> > > > Simon, you've also heard arguments here, from more than one person > (John, Stephan, Laura) that summaries are more useful not being > visible. Yes. > Can we agree that these people's opinions are just as valuable as > those who belief otherwise? Sure. > But where there is a difference is that if one believes the > information is useful for everyone, one can use caption. There is > nothing in having both that precludes putting whatever information is > deemed useful in caption. This is the most general use. > > But collapsing caption into summary is the more restrictive case, > giving no real option for those who don't want the data to be > available, except for some CSS trickery. And even that won't work > today. Why would the CSS trickery not work today? -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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