[Bug 21926] New: Use div instead of span in subheading example for album title

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21926

            Bug ID: 21926
           Summary: Use div instead of span in subheading example for
                    album title
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec
          Assignee: dave.null@w3.org
          Reporter: res-html@untief.org
        QA Contact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-admin@w3.org,
                    public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org

Created attachment 1356
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Rendering of the example in text browser (w3m) and graphical browser with
default styling (Firefox)

In "Subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines" [1]  there is an
example for an album title:

   <h1>The Mothers 
   <span>Fillmore East - June 1971</span> 
   </h1>

In text browsers (or in graphical browser without default styling) the whole
heading will be displayed in one line. Because there is no delimiter it’s
impossible to tell where the interpreter name stops and where the title begins
(see the attached screenshot). Screen readers would probably read this as one
line, too.

I think it would be better to use the 'div' element instead of the 'span'
element here. (Or alternatively use a delimiter. Or maybe the 'br' element
might be appropriate here, but I’m not sure about that.)

   <h1>The Mothers 
   <div>Fillmore East - June 1971</div> 
   </h1>

[1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/common-idioms.html#sub-head

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Received on Saturday, 4 May 2013 11:52:42 UTC