Re: mobileOK: Proposal for an erratum on TABLES_LAYOUT

Hi, François:

For me, it is clear that we forgot to actually follow the resolution.
So +1 to your proposal.

Thank you for dealing with this.

Best regards,

Nacho

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2011/9/2 Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org>

> Hello dormant Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group,
>
> A user of the W3C mobileOK Checker reported on a Checker bug [1] related to
> TABLES_LAYOUT. Taking a deeper look at it, I realized that the comment
> matched old ISSUE-175 [2]:
>  "Tables Layout - we should say td or th not just td."
>
> When it's "just td", TABLES_LAYOUT-2 gets triggered when a table features
> one header column and one column of data, such as:
>
>  <table>
>  <tr>
>   <th>Header</th>
>   <td>Data</td>
>  </tr>
>  [...]
>  </table>
>
> The minutes of the 9 November 2006 call [3] (minutes are member-only
> because the group was still operating in member-only mode at the time)
> report that the group resolved:
>
>  "RESOLUTION: in tables layout, we should say td or th not just td, and
> close issue-175."
>
> As far as I can tell, this resolution has never made it to the spec, which
> only mentions "td" elements:
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK-**basic10-tests/#TABLES_LAYOUT<http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK-basic10-tests/#TABLES_LAYOUT>
>
> I propose to add the following erratum to the mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
> Recommendation to clarify that the intent of the group is for the test to
> check table "cells" which can either be represented as "td" or "th"
> elements.
>
> -----
> Entry number: ED-3
> Creation date: 02 September 2011
> Section referred to: 3.23 TABLES_LAYOUT
>
> Description of the problem
>  The TABLES_LAYOUT test checks table cells. In HTML, table cells may be
> represented as "th" or "td" elements. The current wording suggests to take
> only "td" elements into account. This is not the intent of the group.
>
> Correction
>  The TABLES_LAYOUT test should rather read:
>  [[
>  For each table element:
>  If it contains at most one tr element, FAIL
>  If no tr element contains more than one td or th element, FAIL
>  For each nested td or th element:
>   If the element contains only an image (or equivalent object) whose actual
> dimensions are 2x2 or less, FAIL
>  ]]
> ----
>
> What do you think?
>
> Unless I hear objections by end of next week (9 September 2011), I will
> incorporate this erratum in the errata of the mobileOK Basic Tests
> specification.
>
> Thanks,
> Francois.
>
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/**Public/public-mobileok-**
> checker/2011Sep/0001.html<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mobileok-checker/2011Sep/0001.html>
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/**BPWG/Group/track/issues/175<http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/track/issues/175>
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2006/11/09-**bpwg-minutes#item01<http://www.w3.org/2006/11/09-bpwg-minutes#item01>
>
>