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- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:17:30 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6543 Summary: Mint a new element for figure captions Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Spec proposals AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org ReportedBy: hsivonen@iki.fi QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Currently, HTML 5 specifies that the caption for <figure> is represented by the <legend> element. Unfortunately, the <legend> element implies a <fieldset> in the HTML parser in already shipped and installed instances of Gecko. If <legend> is used, this is a rather notable barrier for author adoption of <figure> even if the generation of implied fieldset were removed in a future release. Furthermore, the <legend> element comes with form-related DOM baggage: the HTMLLegendElement interface from DOM Level 2 HTML. Since <caption> is also legacy-encumbered, I suggest minting a new element to remove the adoption barriers for <figure> and its caption. Since the English thesaurus has been exhausted, I suggest minting a new element name that has some qualifying prefix for the word "caption": e.g. <figcaption>. (I'm assuming here that <rubric> wouldn't be appropriate.) -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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