- From: Matthew Thomas <mpt@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:24:31 +1200
First, I don't understand why section 2.4 of the Web Apps spec exists -- or sections 2.3, 2.5, 2.6.2, or 2.7. None of these seem to have nothing to do with "eas[ing] the authoring of Web-based applications", or even anything to do with Web-based applications at all. They would make more sense in a separate HTML Semantic Redefinitions spec. Having said that ... Ian Hickson wrote: >... > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Brad Fults wrote: > > > > Firstly, I don't think a paragraph preceding a section header should > > be associated with that section. For instance, if one puts a > > commentary before a book (and thus before Chapter 1), the commentary > > isn't meant to be part of Chapter 1. > > So what would it be associated with? The document as a whole. > (And wouldn't the first header in a book be the book's title, > which it _would_ make sense for the paragraph to be associated with?) The first header, sure, but that wouldn't be an <h1>, that would be a <title>. If you're putting an entire book in one HTML file, you're not optimizing for Web access, so you can use <title> for the actual title rather than for a context-independent title+description+publisher mishmash. > I'm concerned that if we imply a section before the first header, > a lot of documents are going to end up with implied first sections > that will look silly in outliners. Some outliners have root elements, some don't. Some outliners don't even allow sections at all, just bulleted/numbered items. I don't know why you're trying to design for one particular kind of outliner. > A lot of documents have things before their main header, if only > advertising, introductory paragraphs, or the like. >... Which certainly don't belong to the first chapter. -- Matthew Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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