- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:50:15 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 01:48 AM 10/07/97 -0700, E. Stephen Mack wrote: >On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Liam Quinn wrote: >>> Is there any reason why HTML 3.0's CAPTION element for use with FIG >>> hasn't been re-introduced with the OBJECT element in HTML 4.0? > >One sticky consideration is how the OBJECT's CAPTION >should count towards a HEIGHT or WIDTH attribute for that OBJECT. I think the spec would have to be explicit in that HEIGHT and WIDTH would only apply to the replaced element (the embedded media). It doesn't make much sense to put HEIGHT and WIDTH constraints on what would often be plain text. The CAPTION would be defined within the OBJECT, but would not actually be part of the space allocated for the OBJECT when displayed. >However, including CAPTION as a valid content element for OBJECT is >somewhat problematic. HTML 4.0's OBJECT definition requires OBJECT-aware >browsers to not display any of the contents of the OBJECT element (to allow >alternate renderings for non-OBJECT-compliant browsers). I know, which is why I think we should do this now before too many browsers start implementing OBJECT. (From what I understand, the Big Two's current OBJECT implementations are badly butchered already.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM8Tahg/JhtXygIx1AQFKMAL+LPt/4bQjhB3fboPRumjjrEgmakgXObV0 geLmAYlYkZoSIh/25ahv7EBIDj1aJomXlPGkPhHyepDy8jBLXk2t9ylz7yo6dJHI KUvKyAl86kDnu+yCjPBKY+ZYiFpF30Zw =p3Z/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/ ====== PGP Key at http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/pgp.html =====
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