RE: using strong to indicate a title?

Ian Devlin wrote:

“I don't like the use of <small> as its current definition is to represent
"side comments" which a subtitle would not be (it's more important than
that). I know that we can of course change the meaning of the element in the
specification, but as Mallory says for <strong>, this would mean changing
the meaning of this element again.”

 

I agree that re-purposing existing elements is often fraught. I still wonder
whether a purpose built element might be the answer?

 

One possibility might be the subline element. A *very early draft of how
such an element might look can be found here:

http://www.html5accessibility.com/HTML5extensions/subline.html

 

 

 

Thoughts?

 

Léonie.

 

From: Ian Devlin [mailto:ian@iandevlin.com] 
Sent: 07 May 2013 15:00
To: Denis Boudreau
Cc: Wilfred Nas; Steve Faulkner; HTMLWG WG
Subject: Re: using strong to indicate a title?

 

I would prefer using attributes to specifically add the relation you want
rather than it being implied.

I don't like the use of <small> as its current definition is to represent
"side comments" which a subtitle would not be (it's more important than
that). I know that we can of course change the meaning of the element in the
specification, but as Mallory says for <strong>, this would mean changing
the meaning of this element again.

On 7 May 2013 15:52, Denis Boudreau <dboudreau@accessibiliteweb.com> wrote:

Hi all,

 

I do like Steve's proposal using an existing element in h1 to create some
sort of a hierarchy. But I must admit that the first thing that came to mind
when reading Steve's proposal for <strong>, I wondered why the proposal
wasn't for <small>. So depending on whether you want the smaller heading
above or below the larger one, we could do either of the following: 

 

<h1>

<small>Breaking News</small>

Steve Faulkner had this crazy idea!

</h1>

 

<h1>

Breaking News

<small>Steve Faulkner had this crazy idea!</small>

</h1>

 

/Denis

 

 

 

On 2013-05-07, at 9:38 AM, Wilfred Nas <wilfrednas@gmail.com> wrote:





Why not small for the subtitle part?

 

<h1>title

<small>subtitle</small>

</h1>

Cheers

 

Wilfred Nas


On 7 mei 2013, at 15:26, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:

disclaimer: its an off the cuff idea only!

I have been musing on the idea of using strong to signify  the title part of
a heading that has title and subtitle:

<h1><strong>title</strong> subtitle</h1>

would be interested to get others thoughts on the pattern

 




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