[Bug 24647] Define table@border as explicit indication that the *borders* are meaningful

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24647

--- Comment #16 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> ---
(In reply to steve faulkner from comment #7)

> > I looked at the latest http://webdevdata.org data set and could find no such
> > correlation, in fact I found the opposite.
> 
> a link to the grep results:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/377471/border1.html 

Another of your results, polizei-bwl.de, which expands to 

   http://www.polizei-bw.de/Seiten/default.aspx

in by browser, contains 3 tables at the bottom of the page. However it is only
if I load the page in a textbrowser, such as W3M (or switch the user agent to
Lynx), that those tables are given border="1". If I load the page in Firefox,
then border is set to "0" - or at least, border="1" is not there.

Are these tables layout tables? When I look at the page in text browser mode,
the tables with border=1 each consist of two cells - a ”heading cell” and a
”content cell”. Even so, in the ”heading cells” there is a h3 element.

I don’t know how you would define those 3 tables, Steve. Perhaps that is an
issue for bug 24654 ? From one angle, they look like data tables consisting of
just two cells ... At any rate, thera are a special kind of ”layout tables”.

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