Re: 3.8.10. The address element

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Ben Boyle wrote:
> 
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#address
> 
> 1. I think there is some poor wording here: "Typically, the address 
> element would be included with other information in a footer element." 
> The footer element explicitly states it cannot include sections, i.e. 
> footer cannot contain address.

<address> isn't a sectioning element, unless I've made a mistake 
somewhere.


> 2. Would anyone else like the content model of address broadened? I 
> would like to be able to structure contact details using lists and 
> tables (when appropriate) and to do this within address tags. The 
> "paragraph" model is restrictive and I don't understand the reasons for 
> the restriction.

I suppose we could change this for XHTML, but for HTML we're constrained 
by legacy parsing behaviour (which is somewhat... special... for 
<address>).


> 3. grammar... in the note "a aside" should be "an aside"

Thanks, will fix.


> 4. could the examples use lowercase tagnames to comply with xhtml (and 
> html) serialisaton?

I'm trying to make the examples have a wide variety of styles to not 
mislead people who skim examples into thinking only one style is allowed.

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