Re: proposal to explicitly forbid <small> use as subheadings

On 07/06/2013 10:05, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> hixie made a change to the whatwg spec in regards to <small>[1]
>
> <p>The <code>small</code> element must not be used for subheadings; for
> that purpose, use the <code>hgroup</code> element.</p>
[...]
> but we need to decide if the "must not" requirement on use of <small> is
> an appropriate conformance requirement for HTML?

What if, as an author, I *do* want to mark my subheading with <small> 
because I believe that part of the heading should be naturally 
de-emphasised?

What if it was mandated that you "must not" use <small> for 
subheadings...is there any reliable programmatic way to flag that up as 
a validation error?

P
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