image/table captioning, citations and footnotes support

[lisum]

I would appreciate support of these features.

I think captions are very common things what content administrators, copywriters have to do.

It should be easy to use, someting like

<img src="pic.gif" caption="supply chart in 2009">
or
<img src="pic.gif">
<caption="supply chart in 2009">
</img>


and thanks to css, you should be able to get automatically numbered captions of images or tables and of course be able to style this atribut/tag (place under/above of the image, font size, align etc). And get automatically generated Table listing all images or tables.

And footnote is another feature what I miss. Something like

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor <f>sit amet<f>, consectetur adipiscing elit...</p>


and under the line on the bottom of page

<ol>
<fn>This term means...</fn>
</ol>

counting, styling, as well.

[lyosha]

Re image caption: There already exists figure/legend. Example:

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<figure>
  <legend>Supply chart in 2009</legend>
  <img src="pic.gif" />
</figure>

[eulerpath]

A Legend is not a Caption. I agree with the first poster that an element to indicate a figure's caption is a must. It looks like the current HTML 5 specification indicates that the <dt> element used inside the context of a <figure> indicates the figure's caption. I would have preferred <caption> as it is more explicit, but at least the spec provides the <dt> tag for this purpose.