- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:50:15 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I am absolutely certain that you will see <h> rampantly misused to replace <h*>. >> Is this a problem? > > Given the current spec text (where <h> is not a heading), yes. Given > appropriate changes, no, but there's already been a decision not to > use <h> for headings, so the changes would have to fight against the > existing reasoning against this. What was that reasoning? All I remember was that it wasn't worth inventing a new (one-character) element when h1-h6 couldn't be deprecated anyhow. But that doesn't mean h would be a problem if it existed for other reasons -- such as "header to nearest enclosing block element -- shows up in the outline only if not inside a sectioning root" -jJ
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