- From: Chris Hoffman <mistermuckle@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:04:10 -0400
- To: public-html-comments <public-html-comments@w3.org>
Isn't there metadata inherent in the structure of the document, especially in HTML5? To use an obvious example, a navigation section would be indicated by a <nav> element, and a user agent could give the user an option to skip the section of the document contained in that element. It's somewhat the same thing we are starting to use ARIA roles for in HTML4 and XTHML; Henri Sivonen has compiled a list of comparisons at http://hsivonen.iki.fi/html5-roles/. With metadata already built in to the document structure, I don't see what benefit would come of indicating it with redundant <link> elements. It seems to me that using <link>'s was one of the better ways to map out key places in a document at a time when the world consisted of the vague semantics of <div>'s and <p>'s and <ul>'s. Now that we have @role, and will soon have things thing <nav>, <article> and <aside>, the technique seems less necessary. Chris
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