- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:53:02 +0300
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, www-archive@w3.org, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
On May 25, 2009, at 23:36, Laura Carlson wrote: > People haven’t said "cowpaths" that > much out loud in that debate but they have said repeatedly that pretty > much all screen readers support @summary [1], including older versions > which they said means there is already an audience of assistive > technology users out there who can use it, today. My understanding of the Cowpath principle is that if authors do something over and over, we should add explicit support for doing what they are doing. Thus, user agent features aren't cowpaths. However, if the WG came to the conclusion that it's good to have table summaries that don't participate in visual CSS layout, the Don't Reinvent the Wheel principle would apply when choosing a syntax that is already supported by user agents. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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