- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:24:10 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Wilhelm Joys Andersen wrote: > > > > "If there is no child summary element [of the details element], the > > user agent should provide its own legend (e.g. "Details")." [1] > > > > How exactly should this legend be provided? > > Since the situation raises implementation difficulties, it would be best > to make the summary element required in a details element, i.e. to force > authors to provide a summary. It is required. That doesn't force authors to do anything, though. > But it appears to be an undue burden to require browsers to provide a > default legend, which would need to be different for different > languages. Making it required doesn't help user agents deal with pages where it is omitted. > A key issue with the details element is that it does not degrade well. > It's difficult to say how much this could be improved. In any case, the > fact that the details themselves - the content of the details element > excluding the summary element - do not constitute an element makes > things rather difficult. It's easy to wrap them in an element for fallback purposes. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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