- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:48:40 -0400
- To: www-qa@w3.org
What is the incidence rate of duplicate IDs on the Web? What tools actually check this enroute to the web? Al >Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 01:18:00 -0400 (EDT) >X-Sender: kynn-eda@garth.idyllmtn.com >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 >Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:16:11 -0700 >To: Andrew.Arch@visionaustralia.org.au >From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com> >Cc: SMCCAFFR@MAIL.NYSED.GOV, dine@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, > w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org >Subject: Re: w3c - Scope attribute in Table tag >Resent-From: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org >X-Mailing-List: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> archive/latest/9130 >X-Loop: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org >Sender: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org >Resent-Sender: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org >List-Id: <w3c-wai-ig.w3.org> >List-Help: <<http://www.w3.org/Mail/>http://www.w3.org/Mail/> >List-Unsubscribe: <<mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org%3Fsubject=unsubscribe>mailto:w3c-wai-ig-r equest@w3.org?subject=unsubscribe> > >At 08:42 PM 7/12/2001 , Andrew.Arch@visionaustralia.org.au wrote: >>Jean-Marie D'Amour recently pointed out a quirk to me in HPR too - it >>doesn't seem to reset its tables ID's when you move to a new data table. So >>- make sure each table uses a unique set of ID's for the rows and columns >>as required. Has anyone esl had experience with this possible "feature"? > >That's actually closer to the HTML spec, so I call it a "feature." > >According to HTML 4, id attributes are supposedly be _globally >unique_ for a document. Not just within the table, or even within >similar table markup. There should only be one element in the entire >page that has any given id attribute value. Two elements with the >same id attribute value is a violation of the HTML 4 standard. > >Therefore, I consider it appropriate for HPR to only consider the >first instance of an id identifier as legit. > >--Kynn > >-- >Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com> >Technical Developer Liaison >Reef North America >Accessibility - W3C - Integrator Network >Tel +1 949-567-7006 >________________________________________ >BUSINESS IS DYNAMIC. TAKE CONTROL. >________________________________________ ><http://www.reef.com/>http://www.reef.com >
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