Hi,
From: Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, fantasai wrote:
>
> As Lachlan points out, putting caption text in an attribute isn't very
> good design and it gets in the way of a lot of things: marking up the
> text, styling it without having to be a web tech expert of your caliber,
> etc. The alt attribute has similar problems, but at least there we have
> <object> as an alternative.
Sure, send proposals for better ways of doing it to the list, and I'll
make sure to go through all of them when I get around to speccing the
media section of the spec. I was just saying what WA1 currently considers
appropriate markup, based on what HTML4 provides.
HTML+ actually already has markup for image captions[1]:
<fig src="image-equivalent-of-text">
<caption>caption</caption>
text
</fig>
Since no current browser supports the HTML+ <fig> element (AFAIK), we could
reuse it for image captions something like this:
<fig>
<caption>caption</caption>
<img src="image-equivalent-of-text" alt="text">
</fig>
[1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/HTMLPlus/htmlplus_35.html
Regards,
Simon Pieters
