- From: Johannes Koch <koch@w3development.de>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:17:30 +0100
- To: 'WCAG' <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Jim Thatcher wrote: > I don't know what Ben's Navigation bar example is, but I suspect it is > related to what I want to say. I believe that any restriction on allowed > order of heading tags is wrong and based on an old fashioned (linear) view > of a web page as a paper document. But web pages have many levels (areas) of > structure, Navigation bars, left or right navigation or advertising areas or > link areas, and, say, main content area(s). Different visually styled "area > headings" and "section headings" will/should appear in any and all of these > (perhaps in each area well structured). When you put these major sections > together, there is no requirement and no predicting how the last heading in > one area relates to the first in another area. But does it make sense to have an h2 followed by an h5 _within_ one of these "areas"? > With CSS positioning the > areas can be in any order. They can _appear_ (visually) in any order. But there is still a linear order when reading the document linearly. -- Johannes Koch In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum. (Te Deum, 4th cent.)
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