- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:42:00 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <55687cf80908070342w4071c417ub362d593a3cda335@mail.gmail.com>
hi henri, >Regardless of the reason why there's no record to be found, it would be good if someone who was there could recount what lead to the addition of the >summary attribute to HTML 4.0. agreed, but I do not consider that the title attribute would ahve been then or is now an appropriate container for summary information of this kind as i consider it would be annoying to many people if the summary information was displayed whenever a user moved their mouse over the table. regards stevef 2009/8/7 Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> > On Aug 7, 2009, at 12:32, Steven Faulkner wrote: > > >The vast majority of WAI lists didn't yet exist at the time. >> >> which may well be a reason why the info is not captured, >> > > Regardless of the reason why there's no record to be found, it would be > good if someone who was there could recount what lead to the addition of the > summary attribute to HTML 4.0. > > CCing wai-xtech, too. (The thread starts at > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/0373.html ) > > also discussions may well have occured without the use of the keyword >> "summary" to describe the resulting attribute. >> > > > I took this into account in my review of the archives. > > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG Europe Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium www.paciellogroup.com | www.wat-c.org Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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