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Bug 8353 - How could a browser or even a careful reader know that the licence would applies to the photo only, and not just to the paragraph bewlo the figure? The license link should apply to all the content of its container, here the "body element", so it should be
Summary: How could a browser or even a careful reader know that the licence would appl...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML Microdata (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-11-23 04:15 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-05 13:03 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-11-23 04:15:22 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#link-type-license

Comment:
How could a browser or even a careful reader know that the licence would applies to the photo only, and not just to the paragraph bewlo the figure? The license link should apply to all the content of its container, here the "body element", so it should better be placed within the "figure" element !

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-05 08:53:54 UTC 
The browser couldn't know. If you need machine-readable license information, use the Works microdata vocabulary, or hLicense, or ccREL with RDF or RDFa, or something like that.

The spec describes what rel=license means in practice on the Web today. We can't change the definition.

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: spec is intended to match implemented practice