- From: poot <cvsmail@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 20:08:36 -0400
- To: public-html-diffs@w3.org
hixie: Work on making it clearer that 'footer' is fine for 'fat
footers'. (whatwg r6090)
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4893&r2=1.4894&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6089&to=6090
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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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--- Overview.html 5 May 2011 23:39:12 -0000 1.4893
+++ Overview.html 6 May 2011 00:05:29 -0000 1.4894
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@
<h1>HTML5</h1>
<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="a-vocabulary-and-associated-apis-for-html-and-xhtml">A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</h2>
- <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-5-may-2011">Editor's Draft 5 May 2011</h2>
+ <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-6-may-2011">Editor's Draft 6 May 2011</h2>
<dl><dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/">http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/</a></dd>
<dt>Latest Editor's Draft:</dt>
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@
Group</a> is the W3C working group responsible for this
specification's progress along the W3C Recommendation
track.
- This specification is the 5 May 2011 Editor's Draft.
+ This specification is the 6 May 2011 Editor's Draft.
</p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><p>Work on this specification is also done at the <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/">WHATWG</a>. The W3C HTML working group
actively pursues convergence with the WHATWG, as required by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter">W3C HTML working
group charter</a>.</p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><p>This document was produced by a group operating under the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5
@@ -14595,17 +14595,17 @@
for its nearest ancestor <a href="#sectioning-content">sectioning content</a> or
<a href="#sectioning-root">sectioning root</a> element. A footer typically contains
information about its section such as who wrote it, links to related
- documents, copyright data, and the like.<p class="note">Contact information for the author or editor of a
- section belongs in an <code><a href="#the-address-element">address</a></code> element, possibly itself
- inside a <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code>.<p>Footers don't necessarily have to appear at the <em>end</em> of a
- section, though they usually do.<p>When the <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element contains entire sections,
+ documents, copyright data, and the like.<p>When the <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element contains entire sections,
they <a href="#represents" title="represents">represent</a> appendices, indexes,
long colophons, verbose license agreements, and other such
- content.<p class="note">The <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element is not
- <a href="#sectioning-content">sectioning content</a>; it doesn't introduce a new
- section.<p>When the nearest ancestor <a href="#sectioning-content">sectioning content</a> or
+ content.<p class="note">Contact information for the author or editor of a
+ section belongs in an <code><a href="#the-address-element">address</a></code> element, possibly itself
+ inside a <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code>.<p>Footers don't necessarily have to appear at the <em>end</em> of a
+ section, though they usually do.<p>When the nearest ancestor <a href="#sectioning-content">sectioning content</a> or
<a href="#sectioning-root">sectioning root</a> element is <a href="#the-body-element-0">the body
- element</a>, then it applies to the whole page.<div class="example">
+ element</a>, then it applies to the whole page.<p class="note">The <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element is not
+ <a href="#sectioning-content">sectioning content</a>; it doesn't introduce a new
+ section.<div class="example">
<p>Here is a page with two footers, one at the top and one at the
bottom, with the same content:</p>
@@ -14666,6 +14666,45 @@
</BODY>
</HTML></pre>
+ </div><div class="example">
+
+ <p>Some site designs have what is sometimes referred to as "fat
+ footers" — footers that contain a lot of material, including
+ images, links to other articles, links to pages for sending
+ feedback, special offers... in some ways, a whole "front page" in
+ the footer.</p>
+
+ <p>This fragment shows the bottom of a page on a site with a "fat
+ footer":</p>
+
+ <pre>...
+ <footer>
+ <nav>
+ <section>
+ <h1>Articles</h1>
+ <p><img src="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/images/somersaults.jpeg" alt=""> Go to the gym with
+ our somersaults class! Our teacher Jim takes you through the paces
+ in this two-part article. <a href="articles/somersaults/1">Part
+ 1</a> · <a href="articles/somersaults/1">Part 2</a></p>
+ <p><img src="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/images/kindplus.jpeg"> Tired of walking on the edge of
+ a clif<!-- sic -->? Our guest writer Lara shows you how to bumble
+ your way through the bars. <a href="articles/kindplus/1">Read
+ more...</a></p>
+ <p><img src="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/images/crisps.jpeg"> The chips are down, now all
+ that's left is a potato. What can you do with it? <a
+ href="articles/crisps/1">Read more...</a></p>
+ </section>
+ <ul>
+ <li> <a href="/about">About us...</a>
+ <li> <a href="/feedback">Send feedback!</a>
+ <li> <a href="/sitemap">Sitemap</a>
+ </ul>
+ </nav>
+ <p><small>Copyright © 2015 The Snacker —
+ <a href="/tos">Terms of Service</a></small></p>
+ </footer>
+</body></pre>
+
</div><h4 id="the-address-element"><span class="secno">4.4.10 </span>The <dfn><code>address</code></dfn> element</h4><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
<dd><a href="#flow-content">Flow content</a>.</dd>
<dd><a href="#formatblock-candidate"><code title="">formatBlock</code> candidate</a>.</dd>
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