[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 #21 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> ---
(In reply to steve faulkner from comment #18)

> which text browsers display <table border=1> with a border?

Answer: Those text browsers that fully supports <table>. Via Homebrew
(http://brew.sh/) I have installed Lynx, Links, Elinks and W3m.

A test page with a complex table:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Publications

Links, Elinks, W3m draws border.
Lynx simply do not support rendering that table as  table. Instead, it displays
it as some kind of list.

Lynx only supports very simple tables, such as the one that Andrea pointed to,
for such tables, borders is not very important:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Winter_Olympics_medal_table

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