- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:44:49 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Kornel Lesinski wrote: > On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:00:28 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > > I don't think <hgroup> will be used often enough to justify calling it > > just <h>. > > Ok, but what about <subheader>? (<subtitle>, <tagline>?) > > The purpose of <hgroup> is to imply that <hx> is a subtitle. That's quite an > indirection. An explicit element would be easier to understand: > > <h1>Dr. Strangelove</h1> > <subheader>Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb<subheader> > > Also it could accept only phrasing content, so it would be easier for > validators to catch when authors confuse it with <header>. > > It doesn't require changes to styling of <hx>, and can be given appropriate > size with "h1 + subheader" CSS selector. That would have been another option (it wouldn't handle multiple-level subheadings well, but that's not a big deal), but I'm not really convinced it's enough of an improvement to change the way the spec is written. It also has poorer graceful degradation behaviour, IMHO. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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