- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 21:45:34 +0000 (UTC)
- To: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, James Graham wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > <section> (or other sectioning element) > > > <header/> > > > <content/> > > > <footer/> > > > </section> > > > > Purely to prevent other elements from being abused, I could buy doing > > this... I dunno, though, it seems a bit silly. I'd rather wait to see > > if we can evangelise the right markup some more before giving up. > > A noticeably high fraction of people looking for feedback on their HTML 5 > markup on #whatwg have asked which element they should be using for their main > content, often thinking they are supposed to use either <section> or <article> > when in fact they are looking for <div>. Although this is clearly anecdotal, > it suggests that misuse of sectioning elements is going to be a significant > problem with wider adoption. Adding more elements isn't going to reduce this. It'll just add yet more elements to have confusion about. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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