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Re: 2.0.3 - bug or feature

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Denis Barbier wrote:

> > since I updated my Installation to 2.0.3 <table> is changed 
> > to <table summary="">. 

> Hi Axel, this is a feature documented in
>     http://www.engelschall.com/sw/wml/distrib/wml-SNAP/ChangeLog
> (search for 03-Aug-2000 entries)

|    *) Add `summary' attribute in tables (03-Aug-2000):
|       This tag is automatically added by wml_p7_htmlfix, because
|       it helps rendering by non-graphical browser, exactly like
|       ALT attribute for <img>.
|       [Stephan Petersen]

But is it really a feature or a bug?  I'm not completely sure, about
this, because <table summary=""> isn't defined in HTML 3.2 but only in
HTML 4, which results in the effect, that tidy converts my DOCTYPE
entry from 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">

to

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

But I usually try to avoid HTML 4 features to be backward compatible
to older browsers.  This simple summary="", which is added to my main
layout-table.

I agree, that the summary attribute for all is a good idea (the HTML 4
specification says, that it there to explain the purpose/structure of
a table for non-visual output like speech or Braille).  But does
summary="" make much sense?  What about adding this empty attribute
only when DOCTYPE defines HTML 4?

Tschoeeee

        Roland

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