contentinfo is redundant with HTML5 <footer> from Henri Sivonen on 2008-03-26 (public-pfwg-comments@w3.org from January to March 2008)

From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:20:47 +0200
To: public-pfwg-comments@w3.org
Message-Id: <16FDE33D-761E-45E6-8497-BBCB2B919407@iki.fi>

The landmark role contentinfo seems redundant with HTML5 <footer>.  
Since realistically ARIA will be used in text/html, does it make sense  
to introduce stuff that is redundant with HTML5 when implementing  
role=contentinfo and implementing <footer> are about equally easy?

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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
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Received on Wednesday, 26 March 2008 09:21:27 UTC