- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:49:41 +0100
- To: Ben 'Cerbera' Millard <cerbera@projectcerbera.com>
- Cc: Philip Taylor <philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
James Graham wrote: > > Ben 'Cerbera' Millard wrote: >> I wonder how many tables can be made natively accessible? How many >> will need to be retrofitted by authors with <th> or scope="" or >> headers="" and how likely is that? I guess more studying (like Philip >> and I and others have done) and prototyping of implementations (like >> James Graham might do) > > There's some very early work on this available at [1] (only the HTML4 > algorithms are currently implemented). Due to a bug in a html5lib > serializer badness occurs when you give it a page containing more than > one table. I also haven't checked that it's giving the correct results > in almost any cases. However if you want to report bugs feel free. This now also has some work on the algorithm from the HTML 5 spec, with similar caveats as before i.e. it is hideously under tested. > [1] http://wordsandpictures.dyndns.org/table_inspector.html > -- "Mixed up signals Bullet train People snuffed out in the brutal rain" --Conner Oberst
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