Re: function and impacts (was: @scope and @headers reform)

hi henri,

>headers/id is already in the draft for pointing to th elements but the concept of chained header cells isn't and pointing to td is not allowed.
>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#headers


Indeed it is, but without allowing headers to be chained and/or point
to a td I cannot think of a situation where it would be useful, so it
serves no purpose and may as well be taken out.

regards
stevef

2008/9/25 Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>:
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> On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:04, Henri Sivonen wrote:
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>> BTW, when I asked for expedited consideration regarding this issue in 2006
>> because I was *about to write code* pertaining to this spec area, Hixie
>> guessed
>> (http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-October/007430.html)
>> that the spec would have headers/id but only pointing to th in the same
>> table would be conforming. If you try, you'll notice that the code is still
>> running in Validator.nu, which means my guess is that we'll end up having
>> headers/id in the spec.
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>
> I should have checked the current draft first, so to clarify:
> headers/id is already in the draft for pointing to th elements but the
> concept of chained header cells isn't and pointing to td is not allowed.
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#headers
>
> --
> Henri Sivonen
> hsivonen@iki.fi
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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Received on Thursday, 25 September 2008 08:52:58 UTC