- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:20:10 -0600
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Laura Carlson
<laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am in favor of creating a <summary> element as it might be a long
> term solution for issue 32. From Al Gilman's 6 Aug 2008 email "PFWG
> WAI review of @summary for tabular data":
>
> "element content providing this info, *if linked by markup to the
> table*offers growth to even better practice"
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Aug/0213.html
>
> Brainstorming long term possibilities in the Wiki:
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/SummaryForTABLE#head-1d4cc386df3edd130dd677e056ba2bf98961145a
Would this be in opposition to using <summary> for <details>, or in
support of it, like in the following:
<table>
<caption>
<details>
<summary>Table Summary</summary>
foo foo foo
</details>
</caption>
…
</table>
?
~TJ
Received on Sunday, 24 January 2010 16:21:02 UTC