Re: [whatwg] use cases for untitled article and section elements

2013-01-15 14:15, Ian Yang wrote:

 > The one came into my mind is blog comments, which are often
> coded using untitled <article>s. But personally I think that is wrong
> because every sectioning element should have a heading.

Using headings is generally a very good authoring principle, but there 
are exceptions. Small comments rarely benefit from titles (headings).

A very different example is a novel. A novel is almost always divided 
into sections, and sections may have subsections (visually separated 
e.g. using extra empty space or maybe "***"). The sections may or may 
not have title. Often they have just numbers, presented as titles like 
"Chapter 1", so they are more or less pseudo-titles (and could be 
replaced by CSS-generated content). Subsections almost never have headings.

So what a browser could do, with a novel that uses <section>, is to 
provide an outline of the structure, possibly so that along with 
numbers, there are short excerpts from the start of each section or 
subsection.

Yucca

Received on Tuesday, 15 January 2013 12:34:08 UTC