- From: Matt May <mcmay@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:54:03 -0700
- To: Michael Cooper <michaelc@watchfire.com>
- Cc: "WAI GL (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 10:57 AM, Michael Cooper wrote: > In working on the table proposals, Chris and I weren't sure whether > the row > and column structural elements should be permitted or forbidden in > layout > tables. They clearly have a role in data tables, but it's less clear > whether > they have a role in layout tables or should be avoided. I would tend to believe that there's no real value in prohibiting those elements. If it encouraged some kind of heuristic, like "presence of THEAD indicates a data table," that would be one thing, but I think we're settling on summary="(foo)" as that heuristic, so we don't need to require another. - m
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