- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 13:06:14 +0100
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML WG LIST <public-html@w3.org>
Steve Faulkner, Thu, 6 Jan 2011 18:17:59 +0100:
>
> What advantages does <hgroup> offer over a <subtitle> or <subheading>
> or <whatever> element?
>
> <h1>heading</h1>
> <whatever>subtitle</whatever>
(1) Most important benefit: <hgroup>, effectively, is a generic (but
oddly named) heading elememt.
(2) It is fairly back-compatible. E.g. to create an outline that is
fairly similar - semantically - both with and without HTML5 parsing,
one could do this:
<hgroup>
<h1>Main section heading</h1>
<h6>Subheading</h6>
<!-- thus h6 instead of e.g. h2 -->
</hgroup>
<p>Lorem ipsum
<h2>Next section heading.</h2>
(3) Some authoring and semantic advantages, as mentioned by Anne.
Similarity with the <dl> content model.
(4) What content model would <whatever> have?
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leif halvard silli
Received on Saturday, 8 January 2011 12:06:48 UTC