[whatwg] [html5] Image captions in FIGUREs

Oldřich Vetešník vetesnik at mrmil.cz
Mon Jul 13 23:35:30 PDT 2009


Dne Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:52:22 +0200 Aryeh Gregor  
<Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> napsal/-a:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Aen Tan<hello at aentan.com> wrote:
>> I was specifically referring to the LEGEND element.
>
> That seems to work less.  WebKit just removes it from the DOM.  Are
> you suggesting that for compatibility, it should be named something
> else so that it works at least as well as the other elements?

Indeed, unless browsers let us style <legend> any way we want (let's say  
like <span> element), people won't use it (in figures) because it wouldn't  
be flexible enough.

Just my two hundred five billion cents,
Rollie.



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