- From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@the-tech.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 09:03:06 +0500
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Cc: Ka-Ping Yee <kryee@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, Rainer Klute <klute@nads.de>, Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net>, www-html@www10.w3.org
>>>>> "Dan" == Daniel W Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org> writes: Dan> I just had a discussion with Dave Raggett about this... <FIG> Dan> is meant to compliment, not replace, <IMG>. There's a lot of Dan> history behind the current spec. Some of it is technical, but Dan> some of it is political stuff that I won't go into. Dan> Suffice it to say that HTML 3.0, like many other markup Dan> languages, includes two idioms for graphics: the <img> element Dan> for phrase-level stuff, like little funny characters or inline Dan> icons (or inline math formulas or ...) and <fig> for "displayed Dan> formulas" or graphic callouts or ... . I don't think this really explains why <fig> must break paragraphs. My notion of "displayed formulas" and other things that are typically called "figures" is that they may fall within a paragraph. Is there a good reason why <fig> can't be changed? Jeremy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy Hylton jeremy@the-tech.mit.edu Library 2000 MIT Laboratory for Computer Science directory of technology 545 Technology Square ** The Tech ** Cambridge MA 02139 MIT's Oldest and <http://the-tech.mit.edu/~jeremy/> Largest Newspaper
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