- From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:37:11 +0100
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 16:27 +0200, Daniel Persson wrote: > 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 > > > It's my understanding that everything within the <body> tag is considered body content, and the new <header> and <footer> tags, etc, are just there to give more meaning about the type of body content. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100604/e347181e/attachment.htm>
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