- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:44:05 -0500
- To: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Hi Bruce, >> Another question, John, do you find the definitions of aside and >> figure too close in meaning? Should the definitions be changed? If so >> how? The definitions of the aside and figure sound almost identical, >> except that figure has a caption. Do you consider the overlapping >> definitions problematic? Developers will tend to confuse the two >> elements and use them incorrectly. > > They're especially similar where figure has no caption. > > I wrote to the WG on this in July last year > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-July/020710.html > > Main difference, in such a case, seems to me to be that aside affects > document outline, as it's sectioning content, while figure doesn't. Do you think that the definition in the spec should changed to clarify the differences better? Thanks. Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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