Re: Proposals regarding <main> element

Hi,

Yes, thanks a lot Devlin!

Regards,
Ian Yang

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Ian Devlin <ian@iandevlin.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As the creator of the HTML5 Bones project who is also on this list, I am
> glad that what I wrote has helped clarify things for you!
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian
>
> On 22 December 2012 12:36, Ian Yang <ian@invigoreight.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> How have you been? It's nice that we all are still alive..
>>
>>
>> Previously I proposed making <main> element a sectioning element for a
>> better and clearer document outline. In the proposal, I gave an example to
>> demonstrate the HTML codes. (
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Oct/0154.html
>> )
>>
>> And today I saw a HTML5 template called HTML5 Bones (
>> http://html5bones.com/). In the index.html of the template, I noticed
>> that <aside role="complementary" /> is placed within <section role="main"
>> />. I then realized that the template is right, and the example in my above
>> mentioned proposal is wrong.
>>
>> Complementary Content belongs to Main Content, so it should be placed
>> within Main Content. If you place Complementary Content outside of Main
>> Content, you are actually indicating that they have no association. Thank
>> the template for reminding me of this important thing.
>>
>> So please allow me to correct my example. The ideal HTML code and
>> document outline should be as follows:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE html>
>> <title>blablabla</title>
>> <header>
>>     <h1>Branding</h1>
>>     <nav>
>>         <h1>Navigation</h1>
>>         blablabla
>>     </nav>
>>     <aside>
>>         <h1>Search</h1>
>>         blablabla
>>     </aside>
>> </header>
>> <main role="main">
>>     <h1>Main Content</h1>
>>     <section>
>>         <h1>Welcome</h1>
>>         blablabla
>>     </section>
>>     <section>
>>         <h1>Brief Intro</h1>
>>         blablabla
>>     </section>
>>     <aside role="complementary">
>>         <h1>Complementary Content</h1>
>>         <article>
>>             <h1>Latest News</h1>
>>             blablabla
>>         </article>
>>         <article>
>>             <h1>Recent Comments</h1>
>>             blablabla
>>         </article>
>>     </aside>
>> </main>
>> <footer>
>>     blablabla
>> </footer>
>>
>> 1. Branding
>>         1. Navigation
>>         2. Search
>>         3. Main Content
>>                 1. Welcome
>>                 2. Brief Intro
>>                 3. Complementary Content
>>                         1. Latest News
>>                         2. Recent Comments
>>
>>
>> Besides, after some reconsiderations, I would still propose that <main>
>> can be used multiple times in a document so that we have a reasonable
>> element to wrap the main content of a blog post. And yes, the document
>> outline will become *more detailed* because of <main> being sectioning
>> element. That will be okay imo. Another reason for this proposal is that
>> because the main content of a document has its corresponding element, it's
>> unfair and makes no sense that the main content of a blog post doesn't. The
>> following is an example.
>>
>> <article class="blog-post">
>>     <header>
>>         blablabla
>>     </header>
>>     <main>
>>         <h1>Main Content</h1>
>>         <p />
>>         <p />
>>         <p />
>>         <figure />
>>         <p />
>>         <ul />
>>         <p />
>>         <p />
>>         <table />
>>         <p />
>>         <p />
>>     </main>
>>     <footer>
>>         blablabla
>>     <footer>
>> </article>
>>
>>
>> To sum up, the proposals are:
>>
>> 1. Making <main> a sectioning element for a better and clearer document
>> outline. If unfortunately it were not accepted, personally I guess I will
>> continue to use <section role="main" /> at least it yields an ideal
>> document outline.
>>
>> 2. Making <main> being usable multiple times in a document, so we also
>> have a reasonable element to wrap the main content of a blog post.
>>
>>
>> Any suggestion or advise will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ian Yang
>>
>
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