Current table syntax allows the generation of a summary:
{| summary="This is a summary"Which renders:
<table summary="This is a summary">
This is no longer valid in HTML5.
Propose that this should render within the caption using HTML5 tags:
<caption> <details> <summary>This is a summary</summary> </details> </caption>
Given that $wgCleanupPresentationalAttributes was removed from MW (bug 40632), do we still want this kind of transformation being made by its parser?
This isn't like <tt>, which is whitelisted HTML markup but obsolete. This is wikimarkup which is now rendering obsolete HTML. The current code just needs to be updated.
This isn't like <tt>, which is whitelisted HTML markup but obsolete. This is wikimarkup which is now rendering obsolete HTML. The current code just needs to be updated.
If I see <tt> in content, I can easily fix it. There is no way an editor can fit table summary.
(In reply to comment #4)
Wikitext tables support captions.
{|
+ Caption ! Heading A
! Heading B
- … }
Yes, they do. But this relates to the table summary, not the caption. HTML5 uses different markup for summary.
And yes, summary is used on the English Wikipedia.
The <summary>..</summary> element, which was part of the proposed HTML5 W3C Candidate Recommendation as recently as 4 February 2014, is not part of the W3C Recommendation that was issued on 28 October 2014. The summary= attribute of the <table> tag is in the latter specification, but marked obsolete.
I faced some resistance when I advocated removing this wikitext at WT:WP Accessibility/Archive 6#Status of table summaries.
I think my points are salient, but that's just me (you should either make the table a simple [data] table or make the table explanation visible to everyone rather than just in the attribute).