- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:03:02 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > The rationale for dropping the headers,longdesc and summary attributes > was presumably formulated by the WHAT WG when the decisions to drop > these attributes was made. No such decision was ever made. We started with a blank slate, and added features based on use cases. The use case "I'm blind and I need to be able to tell which headers apply to a data cell somehow" was originally handled by just having <th> elements, scope="", and implicit scoping with an algorithm, since that seemed to handle the 80% case. It has, since then, been suggested that it might not cover enough cases, but that thorough research hasn't yet been applied to the specification. None of the use cases considered so far resulted in the adoption of longdesc="" and summary="", and so far there is no thorough research transcribed to the wiki containing use cases suggesting that longdesc="" is useful. (The wiki pages for summary="" and headers="" could be improved by decoupling the proposals for those attributes from the explanations of the problems that the spec doesn't cover, by the way. It's nice to see those wiki pages exist, though.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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