- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:03:17 +0000
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- CC: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>, public-html@w3.org, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > Philip TAYLOR 2009-03-01 11.33: >> But we are not discussing where the summary should appear visually; > > As if I do? Where is that shaddow you're fighting? But where are these cells, if not in the physical (visual) realisation ? I see no cells in the markup; all I see are table data and table headings, which are container elements rather than cells. > >> we are discussing where it should appear in the markup. > > right. > >> And in the >> markup, <TABLE> is the 'one "cell" - or place - that relates to all >> the cells', so it is surely as an attribute of <TABLE> that "summary" >> should appear. > > Here is a comparison: > > The name of <table> is from now on <html>. > The name of <tbody> is from now on <body>. > The name of <caption> - now called <head>. But <head> elements are defined not to appear in the rendered page; caption, on the other hand, is expected to be rendered. > So, no, I don't see why <caption> is a "totally unrelated concept". For > some reason, there is no problem accepting that meta-information and > "What this page is about" information goes into the <head> element. Yes, it goes into the <head> element because the metadata are not to be rendered. Philip TAYLO
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