- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:10:28 +0100
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
Steven Faulkner 2009-02-27 13.18: > Hi all, > I have taken up Sam Rubys suggestion: > > "As for me, what I would most like to see in the next draft is a RFC > 2119 compatible definition for table summaries, either in terms of a > HTML 4 compatible attribute or in terms of a suitable replacement. > Note that I am specifically saying "in a draft". What I am *not* > looking for is a reply to this email on how such a topic might be > approached." [1] > > > and taken a stab at a RFC 2119 compatible definition for table summaries: > http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/SummaryForTABLE/SummarySpecification > > If you have positive contributions to make to this definition please > add comments to the wiki page in the notes section What I am missing in that text is a focus on authors. We need to challenge authors: * to choose EITHER caption OR summary OR both. * if they use identical captions. * if the summary looks like caption * if they seems to have written "this a layout table" info In short, authors needs help juxtaposing the two things. In general, what one could do for this are: * somehow linking summary to caption; * ways to let author see both simultaneously; * ways to discover tables with caption but not summary; * ways to discover tables with summary but not caption; I will try to offer a RFC 2119 compatible text that seeks accomodate for this. -- leif halvard silli
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