- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 03:08:49 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > Personally, I don't support the idea of combining the summary and > caption together because their content and purpose are different, and so > I don't think the spec should encourage it as the preferred solution. > But I am also strongly opposed to pretending that summary="" is even a > remotely acceptable solution, at least without any empirical data > demonstrating that it is. I think the other solutions described for > including explanatory text in the surrounding prose are acceptable and > should be encouraged instead. I've updated the spec to encourage describing the table in general and showing a variety of doing so. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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