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Re: Tables for layout

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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Mar 19, 2002 10:11AM

At 9:48 AM -0500 3/19/02, tom mcCain wrote:
>I believe that's correct, Sharon. This is a helpful resource (as
>Kynn always is):
>
>http://access.idyllmtn.com/tables/
>
>In that, he does recommend a table summary of something like "Page
>layout" and I have used such in the past myself. However, a recent
>thread on the WAI-IG list seemed to suggest leaving the table
>summary attribute null, i.e.:
>
><table summary="" etc.>

There's not particularly good reasons to do either, and in my opinion
you're better off including the extra text than not doing it. What we
really need is separate markup for page layout and for data tables.

--Kynn

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