- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:08:46 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Jeremy Keith wrote: > Henri wrote: > > http://adactio.com/journal/1607/ > > Ah, you beat me to it. I was just about to write an email to the list, > honestly. ;-) > > So anyway, the upshot of my somewhat unscientific survey[1] conducted at a > workshop a couple of weeks ago is that there is great confusion between the > <section> and <article> elements. I've tweaked their definitions (as well as a few others) to take this data into account. Thanks for this research, by the way, it's very useful. > In that blog post, I point out that <section> and <article> were once more > divergent but have converged over time (since the @cite and @pubdate > attributes were dropped from <article>). > > I've also seen a lot of confusion from authors wondering when to use <section> > and when to use <article>. Bruce wrote an article on HTML5 doctor recently to > address this: > http://html5doctor.com/the-section-element/ > > Probably the best tutorial I've seen on this issue is from Ted: > http://edward.oconnor.cx/2009/09/using-the-html5-sectioning-elements > > ...but even so, the confusion remains. The very fact that tutorials are > required for what should be intuitive structural elements is worrying ? I > don't see the same issues around <nav>, <header> or <footer> (now that the > content model has been changed) ...although there is continuing confusion > around <aside>. I'd like to rename <article>, if someone can come up with a better word that means "blog post, blog comment, forum post, or widget". I do think there is an important difference between a subpart of a page that is a potential candidate for syndication, and a subsection of a page that only makes sense with the rest of the page. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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