Re: captions

Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> 
> fantasai wrote:
>>
>> We currently have a 'caption-side' property for manipulating table 
>> captions. They can be moved above or below the table without affecting the 
>> markup at all.
>>
>> I think the same kind of control should be available for figure captions,
>> source code snippet captions, etc. We could turn them all into tables, but 
>> that doesn't seem appropriate: tables carry a lot of other baggage besides
>> the ability to manipulate caption positions.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, that would also require a change to the 
> markup language to actually define and associate a caption element to 
> images, code snippets, etc.

a) HTML isn't the only markup language out there. DocBook, for example, has
    a <figure> element with a <title>. It's defined to be used with embedded
    images, code fragments, and other elements.

b) If my HTML documents needs captions with its figures, I will put them in
    somehow. I can write, for example,
      <p class="figure">
        <img>
        <span class="caption">...</span>
      </p>
     It's not perfect from a markup perspective, but from a CSS perspective
     it's no different from
       <figure>
         <img>
         <caption>...</caption>
       </figure>
     except as far as the selectors are concerned. And what I'm asking about
     here isn't the markup, it's the styling.

~fantasai