On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Barney Carroll wrote:
...
I don't know how many of you follow the W3C specification working
groups discussions. I don't, but I've been alerted to some pretty
radical activity thereon just under a week ago. The relevant message
is here:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0245.html
The message exhaustively details the pertinent points in a long and
laborious debate, culminating in the conclusion at line 214:
*** Decision of the Working Group ***
Therefore, the HTML Working Group hereby adopts the "Allow tables to be
used for presentational purposes" Proposal for ISSUE-130. Of the Change
Proposals before us, this one has drawn the weaker objections.
In short, this means that HTML5 rescinds HTML4's guidance on the use
of the table markup structure for its presentational layout
attributes, such that such use will now be HTML5-valid, provided said
table has a role attribute set to "presentation" [1].
There may be the occasional instance where I might use a
presentational table, but for the vast majority of cases, I find
CSS uses far less mark-up and styling than table-based
presentation.
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Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/>
Author:
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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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