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Re: Proposal: <content> element

From: Bill Lipa <dojo@masterleep.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:46:50 -0700
Message-ID: <80a30c090908280846l6386a980m2e33f9f55f1c820c@mail.gmail.com>
To: public-html@w3.org
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:56:41 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch
<ian@hixie.ch?Subject=Re%3A%20Proposal%3A%20%3Ccontent%3E%20element&In-Reply-To=%253Cop.uzc4allj64w2qv%40annevk-t60%253E&References=%253Cop.uzc4allj64w2qv%40annevk-t60%253E>>
wrote:
> We already have a way to mark up the content that isn't the header,
> footer, sidebars, or navigation: it's the markup that isn't the <header>,
> <footer>, <aside>, or <nav>.

It is harder to apply CSS styles to "markup that isn't nested in some
other element".
The main part of the content is likely to need CSS styles in many
pages, so having
an element like <main> would be simpler for authors.
Received on Friday, 28 August 2009 15:47:32 UTC

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