- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:09:01 +0200
- To: Lars Gunther <gunther@keryx.se>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli On 09-09-19 19.24: > Lars Gunther On 09-09-19 17.41: > >> 2009-09-18 21:55, Leif Halvard Silli skrev: >>> I must say that <dl figure > is a smaller jump than <p caption >. >> I would say the opposite. As stated: In a normal dl the ORDER between dt >> and dd is important. In figure they are supposed not to be. >> >> Confusing! > So, we could define <dl figure>/<figure> so that <dt> always has > to come first - like in a normal dl. > > I hear that Lachlan say that that would be counter intuitive, as > image captions will usually come after image. But, well, we have > the CSS caption-side option. And we have the TABLE element, were > the caption has to come first. And it can also be a simplification > for authors that there is one place for it to occur - instead of > them having to choose "were to I place the caption in my code today"? > > The drawback to this is really mostly the lacking IE6/IE7 support > for display:table-caption ... But as you have said: we should > look to the future. And I there are workarounds, such as positioning. Demo: http://målform.no/html5/dl-as-figure-element -- leif halvard silli
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