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

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

--- Comment #14 from Bart <bart.humphries@gmail.com> ---
You said, "it makes it dramatically harder for UAs to find the caption".  It
wouldn't be any harder than it currently is for the browser to find the image,
which is kind of the most important part of a figure.

Regarding wrapping the whole figure in a link, I've said multiple times that
this then also makes all the blank space on either side of an image also be a
link.  You might ask, "What's wrong with that?"  Because swathes of blank
apparently background space aren't usually supposed to be links.

Besides, figure and figcaption are basically just block-level div tags with a
semantic meaning -- who cares whether the browser "knows" that figcaption is a
child of figure?  Let figcaption float around the same as any other child div
and it'll be in the right place by default.  The only thing that would be
impacted would be spiders crawling webpages trying to make semantic maps of the
internet and I honestly don't care how much more work a spider has to do since
it doesn't impact users.

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Received on Saturday, 8 November 2014 20:07:28 UTC