- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:41:08 -0500
Jeff Seager wrote: > A better way would be to semantically attach the caption or cutline to > the image itself, so its display is paired naturally. In this way, the > width of the cutline would be dictated (unless overruled in the > stylesheet) by the width of the image. I'm suggesting that CAPTION be > adopted as a new attribute of the IMG element, as it is already for the > TABLE element. I don't think caption should be an attribute, an element maybe, but not an attribute. The problem is that captions can and do have substructure. For instance, a caption might include multiple emphasized or strongly emphasized sections. Attributes just aren't powerful enough for this. Given that, I suspect we're probably better off just using regular paragraphs in text with appropriate CSS instructions rather than introducing a new element. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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