- From: Ben 'Cerbera' Millard <cerbera@projectcerbera.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:54:56 +0100
- To: "Robert Burns" <rob@robburns.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "HTMLWG" <public-html@w3.org>
This is mainly about Robert Burns's and Ian Hickson's replies to my thread about "Stephen Ferg's Table Research" [1]. Going off-topic is quite common in HTMLWG and can be useful in terms of community, so this is not a personal attack on them. In this particular thread, I presented some specific research done by Stephen Ferg. The techniques from this are implemented on the US Department for Labor Statistics website. I brought this to the attention of HTMLWG in the hope of getting technical review. Perhaps there are things we could use in it. What I got was a repetition of rhetoric and lengthy speculation which I've read in countless previous threads. I was hoping for things like (but not limited to) the following: * Comparing Ferg's workarounds to those found elsewhere to see if they are unique to one site or have become popular on other statistical websites. * Testing the tables in current ATs to see if they are supported in present-day devices. * Reviewing the techniques against the HTML4 specification prose to see whether they should work in present-day devices or whether it is stretching those semantics too far. * Reviewing the techniques against the HTML5 draft to see if the current algorithm is sufficient without these workarounds and whether it still works when they are present. In threads about technical issues I would prefer us to be more on-topic, please. [1] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Aug/thread.html#msg428> -- Ben 'Cerbera' Millard Collections of Interesting Data Tables <http://sitesurgeon.co.uk/tables/readme.html>
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