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Re: Issues of @summary and use of data for "decisions"

From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:39:47 +0200
To: "Steve Axthelm" <steveax@pobox.com>
Cc: "Shelley Powers" <shelley.just@gmail.com>, "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "HTMLWG WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.uvz08lgdidj3kv@simon-pieterss-macbook.local> 
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:24:33 +0200, Steve Axthelm <steveax@pobox.com>  
wrote:

> On 2009-06-23 Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
>
>> It was argued that captions are short, and summaries long. Correct?
>
> It may have been, but I (and others [1]) think that is an incorrect  
> description.

Ok.

How about the following statement?

<caption> is read automatically when the table is encountered. summary=""  
is read only on user request.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Tuesday, 23 June 2009 22:40:39 UTC

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