- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:26:27 -0500
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Lachlan Hunt<lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote: > Look at most blogs and you'll see better examples of sidebars. They often > contain things like blogrolls and archive links, search forms, latest > twitter status, etc. which would be inappropriate for a header. If you think search forms, latest twitter status, etc. aren't appropriate in a header, you've got another think coming. ^_^ <header> as a structural page element doesn't really mean *anything* except "stuff that goes on the top" along with a decent assurance you'll find the site heading there. Blogrolls and archive links are often on the sidebar, true, but I think that's mostly a pure style issue - they are usually tall and display well with a constrained width, which makes them fit much better in a sidebar than a header. In my company's site, the part that would go in <header> contains the title, a main nav, a secondary nav, a language selector, a chat widget, and a link to our PCI certification. Trying to put *any* constraints on header content is a waste of time. ~TJ
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