On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Christoph Paeper wrote: > > 2.9.16. The |samp| element > > Would the following be inadequate usage according to this specification? > > <a href="foo.img"><samp><img src="foo.t.img" alt="..."/></samp></a> > > instead of > > <a href="foo.img"><img src="foo.t.img" alt="..." class="thumb"/></a> > > for thumbnail (i.e. preview) images.
Yes. The former would be appropriate if a computer output the given image and that was the subject under discussion; as a thumbnail as part of a user interface that seems a bit dubious to me. I'm not convinced that there's really a need to unambiguously mark up thumbnails as distinct from anything else, though. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
