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[whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:06:04 +0600
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:43:45 +0600, Michel Fortin  
<michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:

> caption
>      a title or brief explanation appended to an article,
>      illustration, cartoon, or poster.
>
> If there is a definition in this list which doesn't suggest some kind of  
> visual presentation, it's the caption. Surely you have a different  
> definition than me.

I was thinking about a caption as "text displayed above/below the figure".  
In this sense, it's presentational. However, the definition above is  
semantic.


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