- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 19:39:20 +0200
- To: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Bruce Lawson, Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:23:20 +0100: > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:12:42 +0100, Laura Carlson > <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> Another option would be to restrict figure to just images and forget >>>> it as a grouping mechanism. >>> >>> That's unacceptable. >> Maybe. Maybe not. I'm open to ways of clearing up the confusion and >> ambiguity. That would be one way. > > I couldn't accept that; it's throwing the baby out with the bath > water. I'd rather some ambiguity between aside and figure in edge > cases than the inability to have a video or a data table as an > illustrative figure. May be what's needed is a body element inside <figure>. If <figure> had a figure body element (why not simply use <article>?), then it would be much clearer what the caption was captioning. Then the grouping could be connected with the figure body element instead of being connected with <figure>. While the <figure> element could be labeled more properly/freely: <figure role="img"> <article role="group"> <img src="a" ><img src="b" > </article> <summary> Caption of the figure element, whose content is found in the figure body element - <article>. </summary> </figure> -- leif halvard silli
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