Re: Validity constraints on <section>

i have just filed a related *Bug
23545*<https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23545>- section
should only map to region if the section has an accessible name

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Regards

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


On 21 March 2013 10:02, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> there are increasing concerns over the excessive use of <section>. Some
> authors seem to basically think of it as "sexy modern <div>" for no
> particular reason (a good example: http://lockerz.com/).
>
> The specification does have some advice about only using <section> for
> content that is meant to appear in the document outline, but given that the
> outline doesn't show up anywhere, that's not something that's ever likely
> to stop this drift.
>
> I've therefore been wondering: would it make sense to make section invalid
> if it does not have heading content as its direct children? Put
> differently, what are the use cases for a headless section?
>
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> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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