- From: Dão Gottwald <dao@design-noir.de>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:48:36 +0200
- To: Rene Saarsoo <nene@triin.net>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Let me just say that this makes perfectly sense to me. :) --Dao Rene Saarsoo schrieb: > > Actually I agree with Mike Schinkel, that we need another > element in addition to <blockquote> to mark up indented text, > but it's not really <indent> what we need, and we don't > really need it for indenting. > > Often we want to designate some portion of text from it's > surrounding content. This could be some kind of interesting > fact you want to add to your main content, some kind of example, > in-depth material, etc, but it's clearly not a quotation. > Often you might want to style it with and indent (which > might be a good default for that element in visual user-agents), > but it's clearly not the only way, you might want to style it. > > Happily HTML5 already defines the <aside> [1] element, that > nicely fits for all those purposes and many more. > > <aside> > I don't really agree with the use of predefined class- > names for it, but that's a completely other issue. > </aside> > > With best wishes, > > Rene Saarsoo > > [1] > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-sections.html#the-aside
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