Re: PF Response: @Summary

Henri Sivonen On 09-06-05 10.27:
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 03:05, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
>> But I will note that I also pointed out the need to gather data. It's
>> easy to have an opinion, but we won't know whose opinion is right
>> until we get some data.
>>
>> @summary has been specified for over 10 years, so there should be
>> plenty of data out there to show if it has been a good idea or not.
>> Wouldn't you agree?
> 
> I think the best data collection suggestion so far was made by Philip 
> Taylor on IRC yesterday:
> http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090604#l-1058
> 
> Of course, it wouldn't help unless people agree on a cut-off point. E.g. 
> whether a feature is a failure if the revealed preference of 80% of the 
> sample of the constituency is to route around the feature? 50%, 90%, 99%?

Ian does not propose to /remove/ the table summary feature. 
Instead, his draft proposes to force the summary feature upon all 
users, and in a such way that it becomes impossible to distinguish 
the summary from the caption.

Thus those numbers would not help us.

 From the IRC logs[1]

# [21:37] <shelleyp> Yes, but interpretation of whether a problem 
is "solved" are frequently based on biased, subjective viewpoints
# [21:38] <Hixie> shelleyp: if so, then your problem description 
is far too vague

[1] http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090604
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leif halvard silli

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