[Bug 12835] FIGCAPTION should be allowed to NOT be exactly first/last child of FIGURE ("The figcaption element" spec section)

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12835

Marat Tanalin <mtanalin@yandex.ru> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Marat Tanalin <mtanalin@yandex.ru> 2011-06-26 14:26:12 UTC ---
> Status: Rejected
> Change Description: no spec change
> Rationale: HTML is not a layout language. If CSS doesn't let you style your
> pages in the way you want without non-semantic elements, that's something we
> should fix in CSS, not HTML.

If something may be fixed in CSS, then, in practice, it means this will not be
fixed never.

Anyway, CSS and HTML are separate things. Probable CSS possibilities cannot be
a reason for HTML spec to contain unneeded and harmful restrictions that are
purely theoretical and just corrupt page validation process while not making
any useful things.

Theory should not exist for theory itself. Theory and practice should
peacefully coexist, theory should not make practice harder that it should be.

The bug is an isolated situation. Please see more common bug report (bug 13062)
that I have created.

Thanks.

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Received on Sunday, 26 June 2011 14:26:15 UTC