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

Gez Lemon wrote:
> 2008/9/25 Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>:
>> Would it not work if the cell pointed to were marked up as a th instead of
>> marking it up as a td? If a cell is a header to the point of having the
>> headers attribute point to it, why isn't it a header to the point of being
>> marked up as th?
>>
>> (Guiding authors to mark their header cells as th is the onramp to get into
>> a situation where the headers attribute can fade away in most cases once
>> automatic association algorithm implementations enter the installed base.)
> 
> Nested headers aren't allowed at the moment, but if they are allowed
> later, how would the automatic associations for a th in the middle of
> a table work?

I have (in conjunction with others) put forward a detailed proposal for this 
which is available *in the form of running code* [1]. DO you have any 
suggestions for improving it?


[1] http://james.html5.org/tables/table_inspector.html

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