- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:46:02 +0300
- To: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Jun 9, 2009, at 14:31, Shelley Powers wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> I'm observing that in the light of 'best practice' how @summary is >> supposed to be used, only the empty summary attributes comply but >> actual longer-than-caption summaries of data tables are nowhere to >> be found in Philip's data. (summary="Calendar" may be useful but >> doesn't match the best practice put forward.) > > I don't believe a requirement for summary is that it must be longer > than caption. Your argument is looking for a fault where there is > none. Quoting from http://www.w3.org/mid/4A279FC9.4080904@cfit.ie "It is also worth noting that <caption> is a terse descriptor. @summary is a long descriptor." See also http://www.w3.org/mid/4A27C273.9030704@malform.no -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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