- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:53:29 -0700
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mar 21, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Shelley Powers wrote: > The rationale for the editor declining bug 8404 is[1]: > > Rationale: I actually agree with Shelley on this, and that's what > HTML5 used to > say. However, it is one of the very few topics which got a _huge_ > outcry from > Web authors around the Web, demanding that <figure> be allowed to > contain > basically any flow content (including sections, headings, > paragraphs, lists, > etc). That's why the spec says what it does now. > > I searched through WhatWG and HTML WG email lists, and I didn't see > any significant pushback on the original definition of figure. Most of > the objections seemed to be attached to the bug, not in any email > list. Here's the email where the change to the figure content model was first announced: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-February/014038.html It has replies to multiple messages, some of the ones I was able to identify include: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-November/008015.html http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-July/012194.html There is probably more discussion to be found in the WHATWG list archives and elsewhere on the Web. Hope this helps, Maciej
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