- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:32:54 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Bruce Lawson wrote: > > The definition for article says "The article element represents a > self-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site and that > is intended to be independently distributable or reusable, e.g. in > syndication." > > This suggests that if you have a self-contained composition that you do not > intend to be distributable via syndication, you shouldn't use <article>. > > Section says "Authors are encouraged to use the article element instead of the > section element when it would make sense to syndicate the contents of the > element" - here, the intent of syndication is diluted into "it would make > sense to syndicate the content". > > I suggest that article be amended to say something similar, eg "The > article element represents a self-contained composition in a document, > page, application, or site which would make sense if independently > distributed or reused, e.g. in syndication." so that the two mentions of > <article> match, especially given that Jeremy Keith has reported > confusion between article and summary. I've tried diluting the original statement without removing the meaning. Please let me know if it's still problematic. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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