Since a lot of you people have arrived here due to an interest in Kroc’s articles many will be interested in web standards and practise. I just read this and thought it to be the oddest thing in the past years of HTML spec writing ever:
“The W3C HTML Working Group decided that when you put ``role=presentation`` on a table element it can be used (in a conforming way) for presentational purposes.” — Anne van Kesteren ¶ blog.whatwg.org/…
“[T]he HTML Working Group hereby adopts the ‘Allow tables to be
used for presentational purposes’ Proposal for ISSUE-130.” — Sam Ruby ¶ lists.w3.org/…
I can’t say I like this. Instead of getting people to make their websites better you will get people slapping the ``role="presentation"`` on everything.