- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:49:55 -0300
Elliotte Harold wrote: > 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. I agree, attributes are too weak (eg. couldn't support http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/ ). Dan
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