- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 22:07:42 +1100
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Was it ever discussed to introduce an actual <outline> element (or maybe more appropriately a <toc> element)? I think it would be a worthwhile discussion for a HTML5.1 feature if there was implementor interest and it could make use of the outlining algorithm, making it actually useful. Silvia. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > > Section 4.3.10.1 Creating an outline [1] defines an outlining algorithm, but > there are no implementation requirements for user agents. Authors/developers > have been lead to believe that the algorithm is something real that is > implemented by user agents, this has lead to the dissemination of incorrect > authoring advice in books, on the web etc. > > I propose to add a note at the start of section 4.3.10.1 to clarify, > something along the lines of: > > "the implementation of the outline algorithm in user agents is not required, > Its inclusion in the specification is for informative purposes only. " > > any thoughts? > > [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/sections.html#outlines > -- > > Regards > > SteveF > HTML 5.1
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