- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:04:24 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>, "wai-liaison@w3.org" <wai-liaison@w3.org>, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>, HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > I observe that the actual summary looks like this: > >> <table summary="Child investment portfolios with budgeted, actual and >> forecast running costs for particular dates"> > > > It's much shorter, and it's caption-like. > > I think this anecdotal case study supports the notion that @summary > isn't actually used as prescribed--not even by experts. Just for the record, please note that the contents of the @summary were written by a client and not by Gez himself. So this example doesn't represent best practice of the use of @summary. Cheers Josh
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