[html4all] #headers back in HTML5

[Henri Sivonen]

On Mar 21, 2008, at 19:48, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> Henri Sivonen 08-03-21 13.05:
>> On Mar 21, 2008, at 13:29, Steven Faulkner wrote:
>>> I have been keeping an eye on the htmlwg list, didn't see this
>>> announced or mentioned, did anybody else see anything?
>>
>> It was not announced on a mailing list (most spec edits aren't).
>
> But some big ones are.

Hixie mentioned on IRC that an email is coming up but he isn't done  
with the edits yet.

No conspiracy here.

> Though, you Henri left one small hint at the bottom of a message with
> this subject (posted 15th of March): "xml:lang in the light of error
> frequencies". [1] There you added:
>
>    As before, I think we should make zero-width image and iframe  
> border
>    conforming, HTML 4.01 Strict table attributes (except axis)
>    conforming and make iframe width/height conforming.
>
> When I saw it, I almost wrote a note to this list about it. (The only
> thing I wonder about in that message, is when «before» was.) ;-)

"Before" was:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Jan/0305.html

> 3 days later, it was added. [2]

That's a coincidence.

> Perhaps it is about time starting to research the axis attribute?

Please do.

My opinion about excluding axis is based on an assumption that it's  
too complex for authors to use and for users to query and that it  
hasn't been implemented widely if at all. Given how little  
implementation info Google turns up, axis seems to be a dead letter in  
HTML 4.01.

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Henri Sivonen
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