Re: Request for group input on ISSUE-83 (figure and details captions)

On Jan 24, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:

> 
> I personally also don't find <summary>/<dsummary> a good name as a 
> <details> caption. For example consider this example from the <table> 
> section in the draft [2] (where I replaced <dt> with summary :
> 
> <details><summary>Help</summary> [.. explanation ..]</details>
> 
> There is no summary here?! It is just a very short label/identifier. 
> (And as well: The draft only permits phrasing content inside the 
> <details> caption - whereas <summary> invites to a full explanation - I 
> certainly don't think of a summary as any shorter than a caption - on 
> the contrary!)

Examples like this make me think <dlabel> (or similar) would be better than <dsummary> or <summary>. It is true that the spec calls this portion the "summary", but the way this type of UI element is typically used, the short version is a label for the longer contents, not a summary of them. This is pretty obvious with the screenshot examples in the spec: <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-details-element>. "General", "Name & Extension" and "Preview" are not summaries of anything, they are labels.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Monday, 25 January 2010 03:31:18 UTC