Re: table headers - clear description of problem

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > > Well, HTML5 drops a feature of HTML4. *Somebody* decided to do so.
> > 
> > HTML5 started from a clean slate. Nothing was dropped.
> 
> Somebody decided not to include it.

In this particular case, yes; but not in the general case. There are other 
features, e.g. summary="", that aren't in HTML5 but for which the decision 
to include them (or not) has not yet been made.

But again, that's irrelevant here, since that wasn't the decision that I 
was talking about.

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