- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:56:18 +0100
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Robert Burns writes: > On Aug 7, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Smylers wrote: > > > Ben Boyle writes: > > > > > On 8/8/07, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote: > > > > > > > <address> is not a sectioning element. > > > > > > That's good news for HTML; bad news for the spec. The spec reads > > > as if address elements are sections and definitely requires > > > clarification. > > > > Which bit reads like that to you? > > I had the same problem reading this as Ben, so I definitely see the > ambiguity. I think part of the problem is that the chapter "Sections" > includes several elements that are not "sectioning elements": in > particular ADDRESS and H! – H6. That makes it easy to think all of the > elements in the chapter are sectioning element. It might be better to > rename the chapter to something like: "Sections and their metadata" OK. Or perhaps add another level of hierarchy, so that within the chapter there's a section of 'Sectioning Elements' and one of 'Elements Used with Sectioning Elements' (and the current sections become subsections of one of those). Smylers
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