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Re: input from experience

From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:02:06 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199710131502.LAA13225@access4.digex.net>
To: dsr@w3.org (Dave Raggett)
Cc: w3c-wai-hc@w3.org
to follow up on what Dave Raggett said:
> > 
> > His idea for how to clearly indicate this header/row association
> > is to have attributes in the TABLE declaration (root) itself
> > saying which rows contain column heads and which columns contain
> > row heads.
> 
> This is too limited. It doesn't say how to deal with cases where a
> column contains both column and row headers. The scope proposal is
> more flexible in this respect and simple to support with the current
> desktop word processing software table editing paradigm.
> 

I agree.

I think that your "scope" proposal, give or take minor munges,
should go forward in our package of proposals.

-- Al
Received on Monday, 13 October 1997 11:02:30 UTC

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