[whatwg] [HTML5] 2.9.16. The samp element

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Christoph Päper wrote:
> 2007-12-11 05:56 Ian Hickson:
> > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Christoph Paeper wrote:
> > > 
> > > Would the following be inadequate usage according to this specification?
> > > 
> > >   <a href="foo.img"><samp><img src="foo.t.img" alt="..."/></samp></a>
> > > 
> > Yes. The former would be appropriate if a computer output the given image
> > and that was the subject under discussion;
> 
> That means screenshots, doesn't it?

Amongst other things, yes.


> > I'm not convinced that there's really a need to unambiguously mark up 
> > thumbnails as distinct from anything else, though.
> 
> Neither am I, but there are programs or browser plugins that could make 
> good use out of this information. OTOH it might fit better into the 
> |rel| (or |rev|) attribute of the surrounding |a| (or it's done by a 
> predefined class for |img|).

I suppose.


> Another question would be whether the linked image had to be the 
> original (e.g. the full-size screenshot) or just a better representation 
> of it (e.g. the larger scan of a book cover).

Yeah. Flickr, for instance, links thumbnails to slightly bigger images to 
slightly bigger images, etc.


> PS: Thanks for the personal CC, I've not been watching the list for a while.

np.

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