On 8/21/17 9:46 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Jonathan Gibbons
<jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com <mailto:jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com>> wrote:
On 8/20/17 4:11 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
Again, I am happy to take the current state of this change.
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Gibbons
<jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com
<mailto:jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com>> wrote:
Actually, thead and tbody have no direct significance for
accessibility. They provide a semantic differentiation of the
content, and provide a hook for different styling, as you
have seen for "striped". Also note, although you can have
many <tbody>, you can only have at most one <thead>, and at
most one <tfoot>.
Looking at Summary of BlockingDeque methods again, we have what
might logically be a thead in the middle of a table, and the law
of "only one thead, and only at the beginning" might be yet
another hint that the html gods want us to split this table.
This could become a nested table with two rows, one for "first"
and one for "last", each of which contains a subtable with a thead.
I can investigate that.
I would ask, why is this materially different from a new left-most
column in a single table, but I guess one response would be that
the subtables could be striped, which would give visual
consistency with similar tables.
Right - the new theads could get that fashionable #DDD background like
the other tables.
Yes, that's better than encoding colors in the doc comments, in case we
want to do style changes in the stylesheet.
-- Jon