- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:16:09 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
> "header", "footer", "aside" seem to be bad names for "banner", > "masthead" and "note". But maybe people understand them better as > well. Right, but I guess there are quite a few elements then that could use new names. It also doesn't solve the problem that these names imply a certain kind of presentation, and beside the general problem with that, does it really work everywhere? > I guess the proposed names come from the class names found on the > Web. I don't really consider this to be a good argument. Even if you don't think about other things people do that are not necessarily “beneficial”, Ian's stats also show popular class names like “small”, “text”, or even “white” [1]. Like nobody seriously considered to introduce a “white” element, there probably shouldn't be something like “header” or “footer”. As far as I also understand recent feedback on that matter, we certainly don't make a mistake by reconsidering the names and probably even modify the semantics of “header”, “footer”, and “aside”. (Probably flanked by a quick survey?) [1] http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/classes.html -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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