- From: Daniel Persson <danielperssondeluxe@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:27:14 +0200
I am the one posting the question on the help list. To me, the lack of html5 definition of main content, ie body copy in paper publishing, is a big mistake. Imagine the amount of sites where "everything else" includes a lot of unimportant extra, or peripheral, content. Content which is not necessarily hierarchically legible by a machine. Getting authors to be disciplined about defining main content is more important than being disciplined about <nav>, <footer>, <header>, <section> etc, in order not to negate the meaning of html5 structural mark-up. Suggestion <bodycopy>... or, preferred, <bread>. /Daniel On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote: > The HTML5 spec should define how to mark up the main content on a page > (even if the answer is "by omission"). This is something that many > authors ask about, the latest example being today's thread on the help > mailing list: > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/help-whatwg.org/2010-June/000561.html > > Please could this be added to the 'idioms' section, perhaps giving > examples of when <article> or <section> might be appropriate as well as > one in which the main content is simply that which isn't in <header>, > <aside>, etc. > > Thanks. > > Smylers > -- > http://twitter.com/Smylers2 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100604/90da4115/attachment.htm>
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