- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:43:53 +0100
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Aurelio De Rosa writes: > ... where to have the author's data inside an <article>. According to > specification, the header > > The header element represents a group of introductory or navigational > aids. Yep. And for some articles the byline could be seen to be introductory. > while the footer > > A footer typically contains information about its section such as who wrote > > it, links to related documents, copyright data, and the like. > > So the specs assert that the author's data have to stay into the > <footer>. No, the spec gives examples of what kind of things a footer "typically" contains, to aid understanding the purpose of the element. It is clearly not a definitive list (it says "such as" and "the like"), is and does not say you "have to" do anything. > If we consider a tipical structure of an <article> > (header-article-footer), it is already an habit to see the [author] > data in both locations (<header> and <footer>). Indeed. > the question will became a simple matter of taste and habit. It already is, with the spec as it is. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2
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