Re: <summary> element and Issue 32

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