- From: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:52:22 +0100
- To: "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, "Joshue O Connor" <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, "James Craig" <jcraig@apple.com>, "Al Gilman" <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org>, "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "W3C WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "Gez Lemon" <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
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>: > > On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:04, Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> 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. > > > 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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