- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:13:51 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson, Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:06:47 +0000 (UTC): [...] > RATIONALE [...] > Non-CSS UAs [ snip ] can already draw table > borders on tables, so adding a presentational attribute for this purpose > adds nothing for them. [...] What use is there in having non-CSS UAs that are able to draw borders, if authors aren't allowed to use the very HTML feature that triggers them to actually draw them? Non-CSS UAS do not draw a single border unless one sets the border attribute to a non-zero value. The default styling of tables, is to not display the border. I use your definition of Non-CSS UAs: [1] ]] 3. User agents without CSS support or without scripting support, and certainly without ATs, which always use the default semantics of the elements. Some examples of #3 are the text-based browsers, most search engines, and graphical browsers in which CSS or scripting are disabled. [[ [1] http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Change_Proposal_for_ISSUE-129#Bugs_8000_and_10448:_Allow_links_to_be_described_as_scroll_bars.2C_buttons_to_be_described_as_progress_bars.2C_etc -- leif halvard silli
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