- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:01:08 -0700
- To: Daniel Trebbien <dtrebbien@gmail.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Daniel Trebbien <dtrebbien@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Daniel Trebbien <dtrebbien@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > One issue is that the ARIA semantics for "implied rows" are not defined. >> >> I'm not sure I understand why ARIA would come into play at all when it >> comes to tables. Weren't tables "accessible" (I realize it has always >> been somewhat hard to convey them properly) long before ARIA existed? >> > > The issue is that, as far as I can tell, HTML 4.01 does not support > "implied rows": > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html > This is new to HTML5. No, HTML4 supported this; it probably didn't actually have any normative text around it, but browsers certainly supported having a rowspan go past the end of the explicit rows. ~TJ
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