- From: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:58:42 +0100
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>, public-html@w3.org, "DESCHAMPS Stephane ROSI/SI CLIENT" <stephane.deschamps@orange-ftgroup.com>
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com> wrote: >> [1] http://tinyurl.com/b7t7wu > > /me slaps himself for not running that before. Having a look at the result and at the computed header, it appears that the sorting of the headers is inconsistent : for cell 2 2, the header "buses" is the first one, for cell 2 3, it is the third one. This is correct according to the spec [1], because "The headers attribute, if specified, must contain a string consisting of an unordered set of unique space-separated tokens". I think that it should be an "ordered set of unique space-separated tokens" [2], because of accessibility issues : people using the headers will think that the order of the item is fixed. We could indicate that "the order of the headers should be consistent among the tables of a website"... (hope I'm clear) [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#attr-tdth-headers [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#ordered-set-of-unique-space-separated-tokens -- Olivier G. http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/
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