Re: summary="" in HTML5 ISSUE-32

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Matt Morgan-May wrote:
> On 2/26/09 2:46 PM, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> >> Come up with something better, and *deprecate* the old feature in 
> >> order to make the transition.
> > 
> > That's in fact exactly what HTML5 does today.
> 
> No. The current spec _obsoletes_ the old feature, and offers an existing 
> feature as something better. That's pretty far from "exact".

The closest HTML5 comes to "deprecating" anything is the "downplayed 
errors" concept, which summary="" is party to. <caption> is redefined to 
cover all the features summary="" had, and is better.

I don't really see how that is different from what Julian suggested.

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