FW: HTML Table techniques: have your comments been addressed?

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> From: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:53:18 +0000
> To: Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@adobe.com>
> Cc: Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com>, Christophe Strobbe
> <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>, Ben Caldwell <caldwell@trace.wisc.edu>,
> Michael Cooper <michaelc@watchfire.com>, Yvette Hoitink
> <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>, David MacDonald <befree@magma.ca>, Gregg
> Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, Sofia Celic <Sofia.Celic@nils.org.au>, Jens
> Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>, Tim Boland <frederick.boland@nist.gov>
> Subject: Re: HTML Table techniques: have your comments been addressed?
> 
> Hi Loretta,
> 
> <blockquote>
> Technique: Using table markup to present tabular information
> </blockquote>
> 
> I'm uncomfortable with the missing thead and tbody elements, and the
> scope attribute for all heading cells, but can live with the
> technique.
> 
> <blockquote>
> Technique: Using caption elements to associate data table captions with data
>  tables
> </blockquote>
> 
> I like the idea of only showing the caption element in the example. I
> don't know how I missed it before, but in the description it states:
> 
> "however, the caption does not appear in the logical hierarchy of the
> content."
> 
> I don't understand that statement. It is in the hierarchy; the element
> is rendered, can be styled depending on its position in the hierarchy,
> and can be programatically determined by its position in the
> hierarchy. If I want to identify the caption for the third table in a
> document with multiple tables, I can. How could the caption element
> not considered to be part of the logical hierarchy of the content?
> 
> <blockquote>
>  Technique: Using the summary attribute of the table element to give an
>  overview of data tables
> </blockquote>
> 
> The examples use typographical quotes rather than standard quotes, and
> the ampersands are not marked up correctly; should be &amp;
> 
> <blockquote>
> Technique: Using the scope attribute to associate header cells and data
> cells in data tables
> </blockquote>
> 
> I can't find the survey results in the URI provided. The example uses
> typographical quotes, and is missing thead and tbody elements. I can
> live without the thead and tbody elements.
> 
> <blockquote>
>  Technique: Using id and headers attributes to associate data cells with
>  header cells in data tables
> </blockquote>
> 
> The rowspan and colspan attributes in the first row aren't quoted.
> Although they're optional for HTML, they're required for XHTML, and
> would make the markup more consistent.
> 
> <blockquote>
>> Technique: Failure due to using the pre element to markup tabular
>> information
> </blockquote>
> 
> Agree with technique.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Gez
> 
> 
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