- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:07:05 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > When you guys develop the wording, I'd suggest also having this as an > explicit option: > > ( ) The text currently in the HTML5 spec is mostly fine, but should in > addition make summary="" conforming for authors without encouraging it > over other options: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#table-descriptions > > > I believe this represents the point of view of many Working Group > members better than the first two options, enough that it shouldn't be > just a write-in. That would be fine with me. @summary is suitable as a solution for what it is designed to do (overview of complex data tables) and when there are other suitable mechanisms that are semantically better, they should of course be used. Josh
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