- From: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:45:07 -0700
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
>> "Tables must not be used as layout aids. Historically, some Web authors >> have misused tables in HTML as a way to control their page layout. This >> usage is non-conforming" >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/tabular-data.html#tabular-data > > Thanks for letting me know. I am then officially objecting to that > last sentence of this paragraph in the spec, and I want it to be > removed. > > No conformance checker can test this so this cannot be a conformance > criterium. Only some author conformance requirements are machine-checkable. This is one of the ones that isn't. Are you objecting to the presence of any non-machine-checkable author conformance criteria? If so, please see this comment on the relevant Bugzilla bug: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7034#c35 Ted
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