Re: User agent support of SUMMARY attribute in tables

And this circles back to what should and what should not constitute a table.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Hanna" <jon@spin.ie>
To: "W3c-Wai-Ig" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:18 AM
Subject: RE: User agent support of SUMMARY attribute in tables



> perhaps we can persuade the folks on bobby development to add some table
> analesis that does not require that the summary attrib be present
> in an lay
> out table.  Or, we could use the tool as intended and if need be, explain
> that we fail because the tool is incorrect?

I see nothing wrong with Bobby warning about layout tables having no summary
attribute. Every time a table doesn't have a summary attribute someone
should examine the question of whether it should.

Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2003 09:51:16 UTC