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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8404 --- Comment #38 from Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> 2009-12-01 05:00:20 --- Here is another example of a table as a figure, this time with real data, not fake data meant for illustrative purposes: http://books.google.com/books?id=QbdMOM89qv0C&lpg=PA555&dq=%22table%20in%20figure%22&lr=&pg=PA556#v=onepage&q=%22table%20in%20figure%22&f=false I can produce literally tens of examples of these without trying. This is *precisely* the usage as currently defined in the spec. I pulled a single programming book out of my bookshelf (one about machine learning) and found dozens of code snippets given and labeled as figures. The book contains literally hundreds of data tables given as figures (they are labeled as "Table 1.1", etc, but they display identical semantics to the code and diagrams that are labeled explicitly as figures). Whether or not this is a common idiom is not up for discussion. It is a plain fact that it is, as literally just a few minutes of searching turns up a large number of examples. Figures are *not* merely for illustrative purposes, though that is certainly a common use of them. The current descriptive text in the spec aligns pretty much precisely with the full common usage of figures - as information that is part of the content but can be moved from its document position without affecting the meaning of the document. -- 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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