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Re: <caption> and <figcaption>

From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:36:35 -0500
Message-ID: <q2r1c8dbcaa1004251636v94355e83id912250187aefa86@mail.gmail.com>
To: Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>

Hi Sean,

> Sorry to divert this thread, but I don't see any technical difference
> between <figcaption> and <caption>. Why don't we simply generalise the
> latter so it can appear anywhere.

It would be a good idea but there seems to be legacy parsing issues. Check:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6543

Best Regards,
Laura

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Laura L. Carlson

Received on Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:37:09 GMT

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