Re: Naming of <header>

> Several of those sites use it unnecessarily to wrap <hn> elements, 
> suggesting that they have not fully grasped the point of the element. 
> Moreover that is a hugely biased sample because they are early adopters, 
> all of whom are likely to be aware of tools like validators. We need to 
> make markup robust in the face of people who are unaware of such tools. 
> Therefore I think the fact that there are people with enough of a clue 
> to find the right irc channel in which to find help who are struggling 
> with this concept is a much stronger indication of the intuitiveness of 
> the status quo than the fact that a few early adopters have read the 
> spec and so are using the element correctly.
> 
> On the subject of names <headings> came up which I guess I should toss 
> into the ring.

Oh and another related point is that doing something like

<article>
<heading>
<h1>My blog post</h1>
<p>2022-01-01T01:01</p>
<section>
<p>This is the content</p>
</section>
</article>

seems to be rather common. This is technically wrong because it makes 
the content a subsection of the article and so, technically, not titled 
by it. It would be better in this case if untitled sectioning elements 
collapsed from the point of view of the outline algorithm.

Received on Friday, 27 March 2009 14:06:55 UTC