- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:47:50 +0100
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, David Poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, 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>
Ian Hickson<ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, David Poehlman wrote: >>> or we could help@summary do what it is supposed to do because it is the >>> only means of effectively carrying out its task. >> I disagree that it's the only means of effectively carrying out its task; >> we've seen dozens of proposals that could all carry out the task at least >> as effectively if used correctly, including many that are far more likely >> to be used correctly than summary="". [...] Shelley Powers wrote: > Dozens? I've only seen those in the Table Summary wiki, which > incorporates support for summary as short term solution, and a few > others have added, but have not been discussed since. Yes, to say there are dozens of better solutions is a stretch. >One by James > Graham, and I think there was another, but I can't remember by who. I > saw what you recently edited into the HTML 5 spec, and which we > haven't discussed (recently at least, they may have been discussed in > the past, since this issue has been discussed over two years). James <details> idea IIRC is a good idea, and could be useful in progressing the discussion when is comes to suggesting a better long descriptor. Cheers Josh
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