- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:53:47 -0600
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, public-html-a11y@w3.org
> My proposal is still[4] <about>. > > Rationale: <about> can function if the content is not seen - like for > the <details> element. <about> can also work if <figure> contains an > <img> only. Then it is clear that <about> is about the image. <about> > can also work as more "pure" caption for a normal classic, academic > figure. And it doesn't hurt that <about> could be used about other > elements that potentially could get staffed with a caption - in the > future. > I did want to mention that RDFa makes use of about, but about isn't a standard HTML5 attribute. I would prefer we not use similar names, but I still have no strong objection to about. Could be difficult to find anything unique among the many different documents associated with HTML5. Come to that, I think about is used with Microdata too. Shelley > [1] > http://www.w3.org/mid/1c8dbcaa1001241437r1452e90bp7f82c1ea3cfb0e49@mail.gmail.com > [2] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/tabular-data.html#the-table-element > [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jan/0615 > [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/0961 > -- > leif halvard silli >
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