- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 18:44:08 +0200
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>, Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Leif Halvard Silli, Tue, 8 Jun 2010 18:40:05 +0200:
> Laura Carlson, Tue, 8 Jun 2010 11:14:05 -0500:
>> Hi Leif
… snip …
>> In light of this and Jame's bug " Clarify that a figure can be any
>> content with a caption" [1], how about renaming <figure> something
>> like <content> or <embeddedcontent>. It would match the definition
>> better. It would also disambiguate and avoid the conception from the
>> print world (held many) that figure should be restricted to image of
>> some sort.
> …
>> [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/Overview.html#new-elements
>> [2] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9876
>
> I must think about this. But I think that if we were to use the
> Differences document as basis, then <figure> it is not needed. ;-)
Sorry. Out of time. I meant that if we were to base it on the
Differences doc, then such a change was not needed.
--
lh
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