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Re: minutes: HTML WG Weekly 21 May 2009 [draft]

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:30:03 +0200
To: "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
Cc: www-archive@w3.org
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On Mon, 25 May 2009 15:15:18 +0200, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote:
> One side said @summary was not solving a real problem. A survey of
> existing web content showed that the attribute was rarely used and not
> a cowpath. @summary technique was needlessly complex and used
> incorrectly. Features should be media independent. The requirements of
> people with disabilities can be handled with universal access.

I searched the mailing list for summary and cowpath/cow path and couldn't find any email where someone said the reason summary has not been included is the result of paving a cowpath.

I think one of the primary arguments was that summary would do more harm than good because it is so often used incorrectly. Multiple independent surveys of Web content found this.


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