- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:46:39 +1000
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "Ben 'Cerbera' Millard" <cerbera@projectcerbera.com>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, "Stephen Ferg" <ferg_s@bls.gov>
On 8/14/07, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > ... Some of the tables I've seen discussed in these > threads are so complex that I don't understand what they are supposed to > represent, and I'm not blind -- we probably don't want to encourage > authors to write that kind of table in the first place! ... I agree -- I don't really understand them either. But I don't think this is relevant. These tables are designed to communicate with experts primarily (e.g. statisticians, accountants, etc.) and when they're from a government source accessibility is often a legal requirement. I've needed to publish tables like this and really am looking for support in HTML to accomplish this (and I've been pretty confident HTML4.01 could handle it, waiting to see where HTML5 goes on the topic). Here's an example: http://www.disability.qld.gov.au/budget/06-07/mps/financial.html (If you dig a little further you can see in 2007-08 the publishers opted to use pdf/rtf rather than HTML. You can draw your own conclusions from that.) cheers Ben
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