[Bug 12631] New: Note the disadvantage of using only h1 + section

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12631

           Summary: Note the disadvantage of using only h1 + section
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: peter.winnberg@gmail.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


The third example in Section 4.4.11 (
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#headings-and-sections ) only uses
section and h1 elements to markup sections and headings. It is noted that
following this pattern could make the document easier to maintain which is
true.

What isn’t noted is that this is problematic because in older browsers, that
doesn’t support the outline algorithm or the section element, this example
would just be a list of level 1 headings without any "subsections".

I think this disadvantage should be noted or that all examples that use this
pattern should be changed to use h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6 where appropriate in
addition to h1 to make it compatible with older browsers.

Section 4.4.6 (
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-h1-h2-h3-h4-h5-and-h6-elements )
have the same problem.

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Received on Sunday, 8 May 2011 07:58:57 UTC