- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:36:03 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> >>> ... >>>> I agree it's good to make sure @summary is used for what it's there; >>>> I'm not yet convinced that an unconditional validator warning is the >>>> right way to get there, though. >>> Do you think it's acceptable as part of a compromise, even if you're >>> not sure it's ideal? >>> ... >> >> No, not really, as the behavior of validators really is a key question >> here (next to the (current) guidance not to use it). > > What do you think is the proper validator behavior on encountering > summary="" - keeping in mind that providing no guidance at all to > authors is likely to be unacceptable to many people? If by summary="" you mean an *empty* attribute, then yes, I think that should generate a warning. Another case for a warning might be summary text that is repeated in the table caption. BR, Julian
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