Ian Hickson<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, David Poehlman wrote: >>> or we could h...@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
