[Bug 5822] The headers attribute should be able to reference a td

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5822


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #7 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2008-07-03 08:42:57 ---
> So a data cell can have more than one header in scope (chained headers), and a
> cell containing data can be marked up as a header cell, and can also appear in
> the middle of a data table?

Indeed. See:

   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular.html

...for complete details.


> The user wouldn't hear "Property" over and over again, other than when they
> query the cells "Budgeted", "Actual", and "Forecasted", which is where they
> would be required.

Ah, ok. I misunderstood the request, my bad.

Even here, though, I'm still skeptical that the user would ever need to know
that "Budgeted" was a "Property" or that "Partner Portal" was a "Child
Investment". Certainly one could remove those two headers ("Property" and
"Child Investment") from the table in the visual rendering without any loss to
the reader, and I don't see any reason why that would differ for non-visual
users.


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Received on Thursday, 3 July 2008 08:43:35 UTC