- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:30:45 +0100
- To: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Gez Lemon wrote: >> Why not mark all the header cells as <th> and enable hierarchical headers by >> allowing a <th> cell to point to another <th> using the headers attribute? > > At the moment, nested headers aren't allowed. If the spec is changed > so that they are allowed, I wouldn't want header elements in the > middle of a data table, as the header wouldn't apply to the row or > column it's in, but a conceptual header for the cells that reference > it. Allowing the headers attribute to reference a td is logical, > simple, and it works in current implementations. I agree. I think the conceptual headers approach means that we can still use *pure* headers as they were intended and allow td cells to reference others so they can behave like headers as needed. Cheers Josh
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