Re: function and impacts (was: @scope and @headers reform)

On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:04, Henri Sivonen wrote:

> BTW, when I asked for expedited consideration regarding this issue  
> in 2006 because I was *about to write code* pertaining to this spec  
> area, Hixie guessed (http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-October/007430.html 
> ) that the spec would have headers/id but only pointing to th in the  
> same table would be conforming. If you try, you'll notice that the  
> code is still running in Validator.nu, which means my guess is that  
> we'll end up having headers/id in the spec.


I should have checked the current draft first, so to clarify:
headers/id is already in the draft for pointing to th elements but the  
concept of chained header cells isn't and pointing to td is not allowed.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#headers

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Thursday, 25 September 2008 08:33:34 UTC