- From: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:40:06 +0100
- To: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
2008/8/29 Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>: > > On Aug 26, 2008, at 18:53, Gez Lemon wrote: > >> This can sometimes be overcome (if there are no totals or >> other aggregate data that usually go in the last columns) by >> reordering the columns, but using conceptual headers marked up as tds >> with headers/id to create the association allows analysts to order the >> columns how they want. > > Isn't the markup abusing the semantics of HTML if cells that are > conceptually header cells aren't marked up as <th>? The cells contain data, so should be marked up with <td>. > Why not mark all the header cells as <th> and enable hierarchical headers by > allowing a <th> cell to point to another <th> using the headers attribute? At the moment, nested headers aren't allowed. If the spec is changed so that they are allowed, I wouldn't want header elements in the middle of a data table, as the header wouldn't apply to the row or column it's in, but a conceptual header for the cells that reference it. Allowing the headers attribute to reference a td is logical, simple, and it works in current implementations. Gez -- _____________________________ Supplement your vitamins http://juicystudio.com
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