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Re: summary attribute compromise proposal

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:24:04 +0200
Message-ID: <4A788AD4.4050201@gmx.de>
To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> ...
> 3) HTML5 will continue to include a mandatory warning for summary="". 
> The purpose is not to completely prevent authors from using summary="", 
> but rather to bring alternatives to their attention, as described above.
> ...

This would compute if HTML5 was proposing something that actually can 
replace @summary (*); as far as I can tell, this is currently not the case.

BR, Julian

(*) In that it's by default invisible, but will be used by current AT.
Received on Tuesday, 4 August 2009 19:31:11 UTC

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