- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:15:14 -0700
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > 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. How about <section type=article> or <section article="">? Or can we leave it to a predefined microformat (as much as I'm not a fan of those) / Jonas
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