Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: please say "THIS IS A TABLE!"

[Ari Moisio]

On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, David Woolley wrote:

> > read anyway. One additional feature voud be to swap rows and colums
> > dependin on it if the  relevant items are in same row or column even it
> > increases the complexity of parsing the table. Some indication of cell
> 
> It needs two pass processing, which is the current fundamental obstacle.

  Or make two-dimensional array in memory when renderin first time and
substituting it in  place of table on later passes.
 
> >   This will also help to read layout-only tables in braille or speech when
> > non-relevant  items are not adjacent in the same line.
> 
> Please see HTML 4.0, which has extensive coverage of this subject.
> 
  I read tables.html  briefly and there are some tools to make tabular
data easier to read with speech but how many html author ever read html
specs and care making all tose summary, scope, headers and abbr tags. we
have still too many [INLINE], [IMAGE] and [LINK] even there is alt-tag and
it's use is recommended  on html specs.

   If tables were used only for layout then there will be no headers, no
captions and no summary.

  On the other hand if there is no browser whitch uses these features they
quicly cease to exist in html specs.    

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