- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:32:54 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
Hi Ian, this data offers no clue to summary attribute usage apart from http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/tables.html, which shows that summary is seldom used in relation to other table attributes. Is there something I am missing in the data? regards stevef 2009/2/26 Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Steven Faulkner wrote: >> > >> > Philip may not consider his data "particularly useful", but since his >> > results show similar proportions to other studies, I believe he is >> > unnecessarily self-deprecating. >> > >> > If you have more objective data, then by all means, present it. >> >> If you have access to these other studies, then by all means please >> present them. > > Data from Google from 2005: > > http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html > > ...matches closely with the proportions Philip has found in studies of > various data sets over the years. (For example, smiliar distribution of > element usage.) > > Subsequent studies I've done had similar results. The results of those are > scattered across mailing lists, so I haven't got any easy links for them. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > -- 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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