- From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 23:20:02 -0400
Le 4 avr. 2006 ? 21:13, Lachlan Hunt a ?crit :
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, fantasai wrote:
>>> I'm wondering what WA1 considers appropriate markup for a figure
>>> with a caption.
>> <p><img src="image-equivalent-of-text" alt="text"
>> title="caption"></p>
>
> That's fairly limited because it doesn't allow markup within the
> title attribute. What about extending the <caption> element,
> currently used with <table>, to <img>, <object> and <embed>?
Something like this?
<figure>
<img src="...">
<caption>Some image found <a href="...">here</a></caption>
</figure>
I think it's a great idea, but there is a backward-compatibility
problem: current HTML parsers just ignore the caption element when
outside a table; you can't style it and it probably is absent from
the DOM too. Parsing it as XML works, but then the default style
isn't pretty at all. Here are my two (unstyled) test cases which I
have tested using WebKit and Gecko:
<http://www.michelf.com/docs/figure.html>
<http://www.michelf.com/docs/figure.xml>
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://www.michelf.com/
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