- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:23:54 -0500
- To: "Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com> wrote: >> Can either the editor or other folks please provide a link >> to the threads representing the "huge outcry" from web authors? > > I argued for allowing <pre> inside <figure> in 2006. The use-case I > had in mind was ASCII art. > > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-November/008018.html > Thanks, Edward. I think you also mentioned it in the bug. I will be honest, I'm not including this in the proposal. Not to say it couldn't be included, but I hope would follow an experiment I did, first, before adding a pre for ascii art in as option: If you don't have a screen reader installed for testing, I would recommend installing NVDA on Windows, and then start the screen reader and Firefox. Load the following page: http://burningbird.net/graphics/butterfly.html Shelley
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