- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:36:49 +0000 (UTC)
John, Dan and Maciej wrote: > > [snip] I'd like to request, if that is at all possible, that we keep this kind of discussion out of the WHATWG mailing list. Insofar as the WHATWG and the WHATWG HTML5 document are concerned, people are welcome to make any statements they like, especially on their blogs and in bug systems, as well as on the WHATWG's own blog, on forums, in the WHATWG IRC channel, or wherever. This discussion, therefore, is irrelevant to this mailing list. In addition, I'd like to request that the tone of e-mails sent to the WHATWG list be kept far more civil than the original e-mail in this thread. All WHATWG contributors are a team working together. Regarding the specific issue raised, namely that of the ability for all users of HTML pages to determine without ambiguity which header cells apply to which data cells in tables in HTML documents, this is one of the many hundreds of open issues, which you can see on the issues list: http://www.whatwg.org/issues/ If you would like for me to prioritise one issue over another, please vote for the issue e-mail in question. Anyone who has written an e-mail that has ended up in that list at some point is able to vote. In general I would counsel patience; features from HTML4 (such as headers="" or style="") are not a high priority since they already have a specification and therefore what HTML5 says about them does not really matter on the short term while HTML5 is in such early stages as it is now. Rest assured that universal access is an integral part of the design of all HTML features, including tables, and all feedback, whether sent to this list or to the HTMLWG list or anywhere else that I hear about will get considered in due course. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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