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Merge branch 'feature/whatwg_validator': <p>For images that have captions, markup generators should use the 28475 + <code>figure</code> and <code>figcaption</code> elements, or the 28476 + <code title="attr-title">title</code> attribute, to provide the 28477 + image's caption.</p> advice to use title as a caption is non conforming. suggest -, or the 28476 - <code title="attr-title">title</code> attribute,
Planning to remove this part of the sentence with next weeks' patches.
Mass move to "HTML WG"
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