Re: Proposal: <content> element

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:07 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:


> While I think the idea of a <main> or <content> element might sound
> worth-while, it would be nice if we could avoid calling the element
> <content> in order to avoid confusion with the element of the same
> name (but different namespace) in XBL2

<main> would work, and nicely parallels the ARIA use.

Regardless of purity, authors *want* to have a <main> tag.

HTML5 doctor gets lots of emails about how to mark up main content, and  
it's arguably the biggest misuse of <section> as people are using  
<section> to do it.  (HTML5 doctor itself does it like this; we know, and  
plan to change it)

Perhaps we've all be brainwashed by those evil Web Standards People, but  
it doesn't seem right that you  mark up the peripheral stuff with their  
own elements, but the main content -the purpose of the page- merely gets a  
measley meaningless generic <div>.

Of course, I'm entirely wrong. I'll get my coat.

b
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Received on Friday, 28 August 2009 09:05:20 UTC