Re: <main>

Brian Kardell :: @briankardell :: hitchjs.com
On Nov 28, 2012 11:47 AM, "Marcos Caceres" <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Clint Hill wrote:
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> > What I meant was that I would (at first blush and with no knowledge of
prollyfills) extend the current shims that provide support for
header/footer/article etc. Extend it so that <main> is recognized and add
the hooks for ARIA and keystroke capture etc.
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> > Having said all that - I completely agree with Brian's points below.
And with that I see this _could_ be a prollyfill solution. I will say that
I stand corrected in that this for sure is prollyfill by definition. My
point about polyfill is simply as I said - given no prollyfill tooling I'd
extend the polyfill that already exists.
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> > Does that make sense while providing no benefit? :)
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> makes sense to me… however, what do you really get from this? does it
translate as follows:
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> <main> …</main>
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> become in the DOM:
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> <div style="display:block" aria-role="main" ...> … </div>?
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> Kinda interested to learn what tag polyfillers do.

No, in x-tags and according to web components it stays x-main with whatever
changes you do to it (wire up aria roles, for example)