Re: [whatwg] Use of article to identify the main content of a web page from Ian Hickson on 2012-11-20 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from November 2012)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:25:13 +0000 (UTC)
To: Ian Yang <ian@invigoreight.com>
Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1211200624090.26354@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Ian Yang wrote:
> 
> "A hook for CSS styling" is just a side benefit. That's not the primary 
> thing I want. Personally I care about the meaningfulness and the 
> semantic aspect of HTML. Therefore what I want is a meaningful element 
> which is designed to wrap the content of a blog post.

Semantics for the sake of semantics is not a use case.

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