On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Harry, > > and Ian's proposal will form a perfect fail-safe when authors do not use >> role=main or <main>. >> > > problem is its not a perfect fail safe I have actually looked into a > heuristic approach and like most heuristics it fails at times. From HTML > data I collected and reviewed [1] I found that exclusion was not a reliable > indicator. > > There is no reason why the two principles cannot co-exist >> > > of course, bit one principle is a thought experiment, the other is > implemented and used already, I urge anyone who thinks Ian's idea is > worthwhile to define how it would work in practice and get implementers > interested in making it real. > > [1] http://webdevdata.org/ > Well, maybe it's like my two cents which was mentioned before. >From document structure's perspective of view, Hickson is right. The structure of a document doesn't need an explicitly defined "main" area. >From accessibility's perspective of view, introducing role="main" and <main> element is right. Developers need the "main" area to implement the accessibility goal. Since two views are right in its perspective, there's really not much to debate. Sincerely, Ian Yang
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