- From: Stephanos Piperoglou <spip@hol.gr>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 00:54:52 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Liam Quinn wrote:
> Is there any reason why HTML 3.0's CAPTION element [1] for use with FIG
> [2] hasn't been re-introduced with the OBJECT element in HTML 4.0? It
> seems a natural match, and image/object captions are constantly asked for
> in newsgroups like comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html. Currently many
> authors abuse tables to place (visually) a caption with an image, but a
> CAPTION element with OBJECT would make that unnecessary.
As would putting the caption after the object (say, in a P element, with a
class identifier so you would render it as you think captions should be
rendered), putting them both in a DIV and floating them with CSS to wherever
you want.
Hey Presto!
Then again, this makes more sense in XML ;)
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Received on Saturday, 12 July 1997 09:43:14 UTC