Re: complex tables: heading cells and summary cells

Robert Burns wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 8:09 PM, Ben 'Cerbera' Millard wrote:
>> When talking about HTML table headers, I think "headers" is the best 
>> word available.
> 
> OK, then what about table data cell headings? What's the best word for 
> that? Is that different than the headers/headings contained in a THEAD 
> which is more like a THEADER (a table header). If you find yourself 
> translating all of these different terms back into headers, then that's 
> the very problem I'm trying to avoid. There are different concepts here 
> that all have the same word. That's a recipe for disaster.

When it's not clear from the context and you need to distinguish between 
them, then just use something like header group, header row and header cell.

-- 
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/

Received on Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:17:37 UTC