Re: Summary of Thursday's IRC conversation about @summary

Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> Leif Halvard Silli On 09-06-10 17.29:
>> James Graham On 09-06-10 17.12:
>>> Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>>
>>>>> As a child of <table> <summary> (or any other element) has too bad 
>>>>> legacy compatibility properties to work.
>>
>>> I discussed the issues here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3.org/mid/4A2DC7A6.206@malform.no
> 
>>> The statement that this solution is fully workable ignores the fact 
>>> that AT must be updated to understand the <figure> element implies a 
>>> relationship between the <figcaption> (or <legend>) and the table.
> 
> The draft already specifies that UAs must accept "taint" inside 
> <table>[1]. A consequence of accepting taint would be that the <summary> 
> element becomes possible even in Webkit and Firefox.

I'm not sure I understand. Table taining is about where whitespace gets 
inserted when the current element in a parser is a <table> element (i.e. 
whether it is inserted into the <table> or into the foster parent). I 
don't see how the presence or absence of table taint has any bearing on 
<summary>.

Received on Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:57:53 UTC