On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Kit Grose <k...@iqmultimedia.com.au> wrote: > Is there a semantic reason for <p caption> rather than simply repurposing the > <caption> element itself? It seems to me that captions in this context are > conceptually identical to captions for tables?
Not a semantic reason, just a practical one. All existing browsers do something completely wrong when they encounter <caption> outside of a <table>. It's at least as bad as their handling of <legend> outside <fieldset>. Otherwise, yes, <caption> would definitely be the ideal. ~TJ
