- From: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:42:42 +0100
- To: "Steve Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "Ian Yang" <ian@invigoreight.com>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:38:26 +0100, Ian Yang <ian@invigoreight.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Steve Faulkner > <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Ian, >> >> hixies suggestion to use article to act as a main content identifier >> [3] is >> incorrect, as per the HTML spec [1] >> >> The article element represents a self-contained composition in a >> document, >> > page, application, or site and that is, in principle, independently >> > distributable or reusable, e.g. in syndication. This could be a forum >> post, >> > a magazine or newspaper article, a blog entry, a user-submitted >> comment, >> an >> > interactive widget or gadget, or any other independent item of >> content. >> > >> >> The main element as per the main element spec [2]: >> >> The main element represents the main content section of the body of a >> > document or application. The main content section consists of content >> that >> > is directly related to or expands upon the central topic of a >> document or >> > central functionality of an application. >> > >> >> The article and main roles as defined in ARIA have distinct >> characteristics and those distinctions are also expressed via how they >> (and the article element) are exposed via accessibility APIs in >> browsers. >> >> [1] >> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/the-article-element.html#the-article-element >> [2] >> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-extensions/raw-file/tip/maincontent/index.html >> [3] >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Nov/0221.html >> > > > Thanks Steve for explanation. Could you please suggest an appropriate > element for the wrapper of the content of a blog post? I'm not Steve. But I've been looking at the proposal. So IMHO... If it is a single post on a page, you could wrap it in article or in main. If it is a forum, where multiple threads are displayed, you would wrap each in article. Main would cover the collection of threads on the page (but not the navigation etc.) cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathie Nevile - Consultant (web standards) CTO Office, Yandex chaals@yandex-team.ru Find more at http://yandex.com
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