Re: [whatwg] caption (was: How not to fix HTML)
On Nov 1, 2006, at 7:50 PM, Michel Fortin wrote: Le 1 nov. 2006 à 22:01, Jonathan Worent a écrit : ... or make the association implicit by using the for attribute embed id=funnyVid ... caption for=funnyVidA funny video of a man being hit in the groin by a football/caption That would work for the current page layouts of YouTube and Google Video. I think what would work best for this is the figure element I've proposed back in june: figure captionSome caption here/caption ... /figure ... That would not. (At least, not without some tricky CSS.) -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
Re: [whatwg] caption (was: How not to fix HTML)
--- Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: Joe Clark wrote: http://blog.fawny.org/2006/10/28/tbl-html/ FYI, my response to that his here. http://lachy.id.au/log/2006/10/fixing-html Joe Clark has responed. http://lachy.id.au/log/2006/10/fixing-html#comment-713 His comment is copied here for discussion. [snip] caption generically applicable to tables and figures: We can call it legend if you'd like. I think this is a good idea. Caption could be used with just about any embedded content. Taking cues form the label element for forms you could either make the association explicit by wrapping the caption around the element its captioning caption embed ... A funny video of a man being hit in the groin by a football /caption or make the association implicit by using the for attribute embed id=funnyVid ... caption for=funnyVidA funny video of a man being hit in the groin by a football/caption [not that it matters but Football in the Groin is from a Simpsons episode] [snip] -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ #9484;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472; Jonathan Worent #9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9488; #9492;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472; Webmaster #9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9472;#9496; __ Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. (http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta)
Re: [whatwg] caption (was: How not to fix HTML)
Le 1 nov. 2006 à 22:01, Jonathan Worent a écrit : I think this is a good idea. Caption could be used with just about any embedded content. Taking cues form the label element for forms you could either make the association explicit by wrapping the caption around the element its captioning caption embed ... A funny video of a man being hit in the groin by a football /caption or make the association implicit by using the for attribute embed id=funnyVid ... caption for=funnyVidA funny video of a man being hit in the groin by a football/caption I think what would work best for this is the figure element I've proposed back in june: figure captionSome caption here/caption ... /figure where ... could be an image, flash or video content, inline or external SVG or MathML or anything else. It could be made of block- level HTML elements too: code could be used for captioned code snippets, paragraphs and headers could be used when you need a sample document, etc. I see no reason to be restrictive on the kind of content that can be captioned. Michel Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michelf.com/
