- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:52:19 +0100
- To: Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
- CC: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
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 -- "Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?" -- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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