20754 2013-01-24 10:14:08 +0000 Why do we need "figcaption" if we already have "caption"? "caption" is currently supposed to be inside a "table", but it could be redefined for use in other containers like "figure". 2013-03-19 23:47:29 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-figcaption-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 82080 0 contributor 2013-01-24 10:14:08 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-figcaption-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-figcaption-element Comment: Why do we need "figcaption" if we already have "caption"? "caption" is currently supposed to be inside a "table", but it could be redefined for use in other containers like "figure". Posted from: 86.32.126.47 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 84688 1 ian 2013-03-19 23:47:29 +0000 Sadly, we can't use <caption>, due to backwards-compatibility constraints (it has crazy parsing rules that make it only work in tables). We could have reused <legend>, though even that was a bit funky for a while. But it ended up that this was unpopular for reasons I forget, and so we changed to using different element names.