Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Named start values for lists?

2006-06-28 Thread Ric Hardacre
Lachlan Hunt wrote: dolphinling wrote: HTML5 brings back the |start| attribute on ordered lists. This allows a list to semantically start with a number other than one. It seems like the major use case for this is to split lists up, so that a single list is marked by multiple ols. Other

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Named start values for lists?

2006-06-28 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jun 27, 2006, at 09:46, Lachlan Hunt wrote: I recall similar suggestions made on www-html in the past. Something like this could be useful: ol id=part1 liItem 1/li liItem 2/li liItem 3/li /ol ol id=part2 continue=part1 liItem 4/li liItem 5/li liItem 6/li /ol However, there

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Named start values for lists?

2006-06-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jun 27, 2006, at 09:46, Lachlan Hunt wrote: ol id=part1 ... /ol ol id=part2 continue=part1 ... /ol However, there are several issues that would need to be addressed: Hopefully, the issue list adequately demonstrates that the continue attribute is way too complicated

Re: [whatwg] [HTML5] Named start values for lists?

2006-06-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
James Graham wrote: * Would implementations have difficulty with re-numbering list items in linked lists, when a new li is dynamically inserted into a previous list? I would hope not since that's one of the big attractions of this model. Perhaps not so much for browsers that natively

Re: [whatwg] image captions

2006-06-28 Thread Hugh Winkler
On 6/27/06, Michel Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 27 juin 2006 à 6:00, dolphinling a écrit : What's wrong with div img src= pThis is the caption./p /div ? That's how I think of it semantically, and I don't see it as being common enough to warrant a separate element of its own.

Re: [whatwg] image captions

2006-06-28 Thread Clayton Scott
On 6/28/06, Mihai Sucan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:47:13 +0300, Hugh Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: How about an anchor with rel=caption: a rel=caption href=#caption1img src=x.jpg//a span id=caption1man bites dog/span No expanding of the caption element with a

Re: [whatwg] image captions

2006-06-28 Thread Mihai Sucan
Le Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:31:38 +0300, Clayton Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: No expanding of the caption element with a |for| attribute or nested inside any block element? img id='photograph' src='...' caption for='photograph'Photo of Foo herders courtesy of Jimmy/caption caption

Re: [whatwg] image captions

2006-06-28 Thread Ben Meadowcroft
-Original Message- ... Snipped a bit ... What's wrong with div img src= pThis is the caption./p /div How about an anchor with rel=caption: a rel=caption href=#caption1img src=x.jpg//a span id=caption1man bites dog/span or img id=img1 src=x.jpg/ span

Re: [whatwg] image captions

2006-06-28 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 28 juin 2006 à 16:01, Ben Meadowcroft a écrit : Perhaps a better method would be using the longdesc attribute to associate a caption with an image. Specifically we could point the image to fragment within the current page and give an explicit association in this manner. img src=man.gif

Re: [whatwg] secure attribute in Storage section of WA spec

2006-06-28 Thread Hallvord R M Steen
On 26/06/06, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Gervase Markham wrote: interface StorageItem { attribute boolean secure; attribute DOMString value; }; I would like to suggest the the secure attribute be an integer rather than a boolean,

Re: [whatwg] image captions

2006-06-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Ben Meadowcroft wrote: Perhaps a better method would be using the longdesc attribute to associate a caption with an image. Specifically we could point the image to fragment within the current page and give an explicit association in this manner. img src=man.gif alt=A Man longdesc=#manCaption /

Re: [whatwg] image captions

2006-06-28 Thread David Walbert
On Jun 28, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: A caption doesn't even come close to being a good long description. Agreed, and conversely, a literal description of the image makes a poor caption -- it would be redundant to anyone who can see the image. A good caption enhances the

Re: [whatwg] image captions

2006-06-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Michel Fortin wrote: figure captionFigure 1: Some image/caption img src=... /figure I agree that structure is the best approach. That allows for good styling, by setting the following: figure { display: table; caption-side: bottom; } figure img { display: block; }