Re: <main>

My first inclination on this is that it's a polyfill (akin to the header/footer/article/section shims that exist already). But due to the additional behavior specified in the draft and relationship to the ARIA role - this could be a prollyfill. 

I guess I would say it's an interesting prolyfill if specified this way:

	A new HTML element that can be associated to WIA-ARIA landmark role and is hooked to DOM events relatable to that landmark role.

In other words, I'm of the opinion that a prollyfill for "main" is to limited to this 1 use case and that I see opportunity for more use cases. I don't know, I still feel like it's a polyfill and a solved problem. I'd like more opinion from others.



On Nov 28, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:

> We have been having this discussion on twitter, but I think it is appropriate to have here ...
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> If you haven't been following, there is a split over whether to add a <main> element.  Here is a decent place to start reading where you can follow lots of relevant links:
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> http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2012-November/022984.html
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> The question I put to this group is:  is prollyfilling tags like this a worthwhile exercise to help answer questions like the ones raised here "in the wild".  I definitely think so, but I get the sense that we might not all share that opionion.
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> Brian Kardell :: @briankardell :: hitchjs.com
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