[Bug 24605] Make the use of <table border="1"> RECOMMENDED default in polyglot/robust documents and tools

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24605

--- Comment #7 from David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> ---
> So you are not satisfied with the robust direction.

A _very_ limited amount in that direction is just about acceptable to justify
adding  few things that go beyond the theoretical minimum needed for XHTML/XML
parsing compatibility, but any such additions severely weaken the justification
for having this specification, and certainly if this recommendation of using
border attribute were added then that would be strong reason for voting _not_
to progress this draft to REC status.



There are many toolchains for which it is very convenient (if not absolutely
required) to use an xml parser on an "html" document, and for such situations
the original polyglot spec was a potentially useful resource.

As it is becoming (and would definitely become if the proposed change were
made) it is just becoming a personal hodgepodge "best practice" advice
completely unrelated to the issue at hand.

Reasonable people may disagree on whether table/@border is a good idea, but why
should they even be discussing it in the context of XML parser behaviour? If I
(reasonably) want a document that parses as xml or html but doesn't have table
borders, why put obstacles in the way by introducing these irrelevant
constraints on what is or is not considered valid polyglot markup?

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Received on Wednesday, 12 February 2014 15:27:35 UTC