Is this more or less meaningful TO YOU than only an image element and req'd attributes? <figure> <img src="images/ennishouse.jpg alt="photo of Ennis House by architect Frank Lloyd Wright"> <figcaption>A photo of Ennis House by architect Frank Lloyd Wright</figcaption> </figure>
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As someone who doesn't know much about semantic html, I prefer the figcaption over alt because it seems more straight forward in declaring it's purpose. I don't love the abbreviation, but I'll survive.
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Replying to @KellyRankin19
You just bridged semantic markup to stricter use of HTML syntax! (figure block, img inline). More rigor. One of many points of contention between HTML served as text v XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml. Error forgiveness vs. draconian error handling. (heh, she said draconian)

Apr 27, 2021 · 2:33 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @KellyRankin19
(in the absence of a useful opinion) why does Draconia get such a bad press. Surely there are some liberal laid back people there? 😉
Replying to @mholzschlag @KellyRankin19
I never tried to understand the difference between text and application/xhtml+xml, but I do think that if all user agents refused to render a page with any mistakes, then we might have more consistency, better support for standards and fewer gnarly #accessibility issues.