8353 2009-11-23 04:15:22 +0000 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 2010-10-05 13:03:08 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML Microdata (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#link-type-license P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 29670 0 contributor 2009-11-23 04:15:22 +0000 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 ! Posted from: 79.82.50.224 30485 1 ian 2010-01-05 08:53:54 +0000 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. EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: spec is intended to match implemented practice