- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:27:53 -0800
- To: daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
This is a feature that would help a lot of use cases, including intelligently speaking a document. As presently specked (taking a leaf out of the realtime captioners book;-)) <section> really is just a way of spelling <div> differently. Daniel Glazman writes: > > Hello guys, > > With my Nvu hat on, the section element is a problem to me. It does not > give me enough power or flexibility and requires exactly the same amount > of JS code ol-plain-flat-html code required in the past. Let me give you > a concrete example seen a zillion times on the web : > > <section> > <h4><img src="l.gif" alt="T">he raise of a new standard</h4> > <p>bla bla bla</p> > </section> > > First I would like the DOM interface for section to retrieve for me the > title of the section if any. When I say the title, I am not saying that > the result here should be > > he raise of a new standard > > I need and want > > The raise of a new standard > > See what I mean ? > > Furthermore, I think the model for section is not enough. It clearly > assumes the title of a section is always IN the section itself. This is > clearly not the case when your document outline lies outline of the main > flow. I recommend changing as follows : > > if a section element has an attribute 'headerref' then this attribute > contains the URL of an element being the header of the section ; > otherwise the header is as originally proposed the first heading > element inside the section. For example : > > <nav> > <a href="section1.html" id="TheRaiseOfANewStandard">The raise > of a new standard</a> > </nav> > ... > <section headerref="#TheRaiseOfANewStandard"> > <h6>this is **not** the section's header</h6> > <p>bla bla bla bla</p> > </section> > > That way, it's still possible to retrieve the outline of the document > from the sections w/o looking at the navigation boxes. > > (please, no religious comment about the name 'headerref', I just DO NOT > care about the name, I want the feature) > > </Daniel> -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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