- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 23:29:59 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, fantasai wrote: > > As Lachlan points out, putting caption text in an attribute isn't very > good design and it gets in the way of a lot of things: marking up the > text, styling it without having to be a web tech expert of your caliber, > etc. The alt attribute has similar problems, but at least there we have > <object> as an alternative. Sure, send proposals for better ways of doing it to the list, and I'll make sure to go through all of them when I get around to speccing the media section of the spec. I was just saying what WA1 currently considers appropriate markup, based on what HTML4 provides. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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