- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:55:51 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Ian Yang <ian@invigoreight.com>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Ian Yang wrote: > > There is one thing which makes me confused. You mentioned the <main> is > "mainly serves as a styling hook." If what we need is just a styling > hook, why was <main> introduced? We could just use <div>. Yeah, that was my argument too. But browser vendors added it, and the spec matches reality, so I added it to the spec. > So iiuic, the <main> still has its purpose because it natively has the > role "main". Please correct me if I'm wrong. The "main" role isn't necessary. IMHO it's a mistake in ARIA that this role even exists. But that's a discussion for the ARIA list; this list is the wrong place to discuss ARIA. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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