On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:43:47 +0600, Jeff Seager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
How is your proposed CAPTION attrbute different from the TITLE attribute
already included in HTML4?
Alexey, the only problem I have with "title" in this context is in the
current UA implementations. I'm not as familiar with the W3C specs as
many people here, but in practice "title" doesn't display, does it? In
Firefox, at least, it displays when the cursor hovers over it. I don't
want to explain to non-savvy users that they need to hover over images
to get the caption. Instead, we should have a simple way to attach a
caption that all user agents interpret as being associated with a
particular image. The visual display would be controlled with CSS, but
its context should be readily understood by JAWS, Window Eyes, and other
non-graphical user agents.
With CSS3 it's possible to display the value of "title" attribute in the
visual flow. For older UAs a JS implementation is trivial.
The problem is that captions can and do have substructure. For instance,
a caption might include multiple emphasized or strongly emphasized
sections. Attributes just aren't powerful enough for this.
Why is that, Elliotte? Maybe I just expect less of a caption. After all,
don't we just need it to provide an explanation for why or how this
graphic image relates to content? It's the content that should carry the
real burden. A caption may fulfill a more elaborate purpose in technical
and scientific papers, but I don't see that as inherently necessary. I'm
open to understand differently, though.
If you don't expect of a caption more than of a simple attribute, then the
existing "title" attribute should fit your needs.
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Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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