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From: Nick Wilson
Date: Mar 19, 2002 12:25PM

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* and then Kynn Bartlett declared....
> ><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.

I was reading a thread with a blind user recently and he was saying
that the extra markup in using a table summary was just a waste of his
time and you can quickly 'see' the point of a table used for layout.

Food for thought perhaps..

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