- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:02:25 +0100
- To: "WCAG-WG" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi Bruce, Johannes, At 15:17 31/01/2007, Bailey, Bruce wrote: >Johannes points out: ><!-- TH is for headers, TD for data, but for cells acting as both use TD --> > > From URL: ><http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.6>http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.6 > >While I am a little chagrined that it took me eight or nine years to >become aware of this particular detail, I am actually quite grateful >for that little nugget! But I have to ask, how authoritative is >it? Is a comment within sample code actually meant to be normative? You're right about the authoritativness of comments in DTDs: "Comments appearing in the HTML 4 DTD have no normative value; they are informative only." (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/conform.html#h-4.2). However, the sections "11.4.2 Categorizing cells" (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#multi-dimension) and "11.4.1 Associating header information with data cells" (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#header-data) are also about scope and table header cells. My understanding is that when you use the SCOPE attribute on a TD element, you indicate that you want this to be a header cell. Best regards, Christophe > -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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