Re: HTML5 Validator doesn't appear to understand colspan

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> [T]he formulation is rather abstract, not something you'd like to
> read over breakfast. If someone could write down (or track down?) a
> tutorialish explanation, it would surely help in dealing with
> validator error messages, too.

Thank you for the clarification, Jukka; all is now clear.  Except, as
you so rightly say, with the formulation in the specification, which is
anything but clear and which would benefit either from a complete
re-cast or from a non-normative paraphrase for the benefit of mere
humans !

Philip Taylor