Re: Week 14/15: Staged WHATWG patches for HTML5.1

? is this defined somewhere else other than the element defintion? if thats
the case then its fine

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 18 April 2013 07:41, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> hi silvia,
>>
>>
>> * Restrict <main> from having <aside>, <footer>, <header>, or <nav>
>> ancestors (7817)
>>
>> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/92a5ab6d36b3db8b655f88d080779bfd0f8b56a3
>>
>> doesn't look like this was applied and ask that it not be applied as the
>> contexts in which main can be used are already defined in html 5.1 and the
>> rules are implemented the validator,
>>
>
>
> It's in nightly, so just staged for publication. This is why I do these
> cherry-picks - I can always revert them. However, I have a question.
> This repeating information that is defined in the <main> element. Why is
> that so bad to repeat it? In my view, it makes it easier for an author to
> find this information.
>
> Thanks,
> Silvia.
>