[whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute
Alexey Feldgendler
alexey at feldgendler.ru
Sat Nov 11 09:21:27 PST 2006
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:43:47 +0600, Jeff Seager <Jeff.Seager at wvdrs.org>
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 <alexey at feldgendler.ru>
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