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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8404 --- Comment #29 from Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net> 2009-12-01 00:25:54 --- (In reply to comment #27) > (In reply to comment #22) > > > > How are DocBook converted to HTML now? There is no figure in HTML4, or XHTML. > > <figure> > <title>Sample Figure</title> > <informaltable> > <tbody> > <tr> > <td>Cell</td> > </tr> > </tbody> > </informaltable> > </figure> > > Becomes > > <div class="figure"> > <p class="title"> > <b>Figure 1. Sample Figure</b> > </p> > <div class="figure-contents"> > <table id="d0e12"> > <tbody> > <tr> > <td>Cell</td> > </tr> > </tbody> > </table> > </div> > </div> > > > I admit to having written code to convert HTML tables into images for use on > the Kindle. This was not... ideal. > Yes, I've been working on converting web pages into ebooks, and tables don't make the conversion with ease. Tables are a pain in publication anyway. Even when I use OpenOffice and a template, I hate working with tables. But what you've shown is what I expect: the figure would be converted to a div element, wrapping the contents. Perhaps this is the approach we should adopt, and abandon figure as an element. I've not seen a good argument to keep figure, not if we have to repurpose dt/dd, or wrap the thing in a div element just to make it work in IE6/IE7. Folks have said, well what about web bots? If we have a figure element, the bot can grab the figure image, and the caption, and use this to build the images directory at Google[1]. Well, when figure has table, a poem, or whatever, how meaningful is this now? Seriously? And the assumption that figure wraps a graphical illustration fully demonstrates how confusing this element will be. Shelley [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Nov/0667.html -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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