- From: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:57:07 -0500
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>,"public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
At 04:41 PM 7/8/2009 -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >For these reasons, I think it is helpful to explain the problems with >summary="", more so than for the other attributes. I think the >explanation could be either in the section on explanatory information >for tables, or in the obsolete features section, but either way I >think it is helpful to provide it. > >That being said, I don't really want to micromanage the exact spec >text. I'm just explaining why I think further explanatory material in >the spec text is merited. I agree that further explanatory text is needed, but I am not so sure that it needs to be so pejorative. There remain members of the WG who would prefer that a useful explanation of summary be included -- for which I will gladly write the text if no one else steps up -- which could also include an advisory that misuse of summary could be harmful.
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