- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:24:07 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, John Drinkwater <john@nextraweb.com>, Geoffrey Sneddon <gsneddon@opera.com>, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Anne van Kesteren<annevk@opera.com> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:56:41 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> >> We already have a way to mark up the content that isn't the header, >> footer, sidebars, or navigation: it's the markup that isn't the <header>, >> <footer>, <aside>, or <nav>. > > Yeah, so people will be forced to write crap markup: > > <div role=main> > > rather than just: > > <main> > > Having said that, most people will probably use some variation of > > <section id=main> > <article id=main> > > which would be wrong. > > Given that we cover 4/5 of the authoring practice regarding structuring > content we should just complete it in my opinion and not leave people > confused as to what to do. While I think the idea of a <main> or <content> element might sound worth-while, it would be nice if we could avoid calling the element <content> in order to avoid confusion with the element of the same name (but different namespace) in XBL2. / Jonas
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