hixie: Extend <footer> to be more like <header>. (whatwg r3751)

hixie: Extend <footer> to be more like <header>. (whatwg r3751)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.2921&r2=1.2922&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3750&to=3751

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2921
retrieving revision 1.2922
diff -u -d -r1.2921 -r1.2922
--- Overview.html 4 Sep 2009 07:44:24 -0000 1.2921
+++ Overview.html 4 Sep 2009 09:09:40 -0000 1.2922
@@ -11554,10 +11554,8 @@
    <dt>Contexts in which this element may be used:</dt>
    <dd>Where <a href="#flow-content">flow content</a> is expected.</dd>
    <dt>Content model:</dt>
-   <dd><a href="#flow-content">Flow content</a>, but with no <a href="#heading-content">heading
-   content</a> descendants, no <a href="#sectioning-content">sectioning content</a>
-   descendants, and no <code><a href="#the-header-element">header</a></code> or <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code>
-   element descendants.</dd>
+   <dd><a href="#flow-content">Flow content</a>, but with no <code><a href="#the-header-element">header</a></code> or
+   <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element descendants.</dd>
    <dt>Content attributes:</dt>
    <dd><a href="#global-attributes">Global attributes</a></dd>
    <dt>DOM interface:</dt>
@@ -11568,11 +11566,12 @@
   it, links to related documents, copyright data, and the like.<p class="note">Contact information belongs in an
   <code><a href="#the-address-element">address</a></code> element, possibly itself inside a
   <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code>.<p>Footers don't necessarily have to appear at the end of a section,
-  though they usually do.<p>The <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element is inappropriate for containing
-  entire sections. For appendices, indexes, long colophons, verbose
-  license agreements, and other such content which needs sectioning
-  with headings and so forth, regular <code><a href="#the-section-element">section</a></code> elements
-  should be used, not a <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code>.<div class="example">
+  though they usually do.<p>When the <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element contains entire sections,
+  they <a href="#represents" title="represents">represent</a> appendices, indexes,
+  long colophons, verbose license agreements, and other such
+  content.<p class="note">The <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element is not
+  <a href="#sectioning-content">sectioning content</a>; it doesn't introduce a new
+  section.<div class="example">
 
    <p>Here is a page with two footers, one at the top and one at the
    bottom, with the same content:</p>

Received on Friday, 4 September 2009 09:10:40 UTC