- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:51:44 -0600
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Cc: Jeroen van der Gun <noreplytopreventspam@blijbol.nl>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com> wrote: > We're just now getting people to stop abusing HTML tables for layout, > and now we want to encourage people to abuse HTML tables for > illustration purposes? Yes, because it's not abuse. It's still tabular data. Nothing about <table> says that you should only use if it's *real* data. Data is data is data, whether for illustrative purposes or what-have-you. Are you still suggesting that a better alternative is to screenshot the table and insert the image into your page as a <figure> instead? That is, in my opinion, ludicrous. What would you put as the alt-text? What could possibly be a more appropriate description of the table *than the table itself*? ~TJ
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