On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Jonathan Gibbons < jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > On 8/20/17 4:11 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote: > > Again, I am happy to take the current state of this change. > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Gibbons < > jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> Actually, thead and tbody have no direct significance for accessibility. >> They provide a semantic differentiation of the content, and provide a hook >> for different styling, as you have seen for "striped". Also note, although >> you can have many <tbody>, you can only have at most one <thead>, and at >> most one <tfoot>. >> > Looking at Summary of BlockingDeque methods again, we have what might > logically be a thead in the middle of a table, and the law of "only one > thead, and only at the beginning" might be yet another hint that the html > gods want us to split this table. This could become a nested table with > two rows, one for "first" and one for "last", each of which contains a > subtable with a thead. > > > I can investigate that. > > I would ask, why is this materially different from a new left-most column > in a single table, but I guess one response would be that the subtables > could be striped, which would give visual consistency with similar tables. > Right - the new theads could get that fashionable #DDD background like the other tables.
