RE: <caption> and <figcaption>

That's disappointing. HTML5 is going to even more gnarly than I feared then.

-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Carlson [mailto:laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 12:37 AM
To: Sean Hayes
Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force
Subject: Re: <caption> and <figcaption>

Hi Sean,

> Sorry to divert this thread, but I don't see any technical difference 
> between <figcaption> and <caption>. Why don't we simply generalise the 
> latter so it can appear anywhere.

It would be a good idea but there seems to be legacy parsing issues. Check:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6543


Best Regards,
Laura

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Laura L. Carlson

Received on Monday, 26 April 2010 16:50:41 UTC