Re: Proposal: <content> element

hi Toby,

would you mark each of these items as a <footer>?

regards
stevef

2009/8/28 Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>

> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 10:19 +0100, Steven Faulkner wrote:
> > 3. while currently role="contentinfo" does not have an authoring
> > restriction like role="banner", i believe this is an oversight, and it
> > should have.
>
> I disagree. My homepage (link in sig) uses role="contentinfo" for three
> distinct elements.
>
> 1. A list of tags for the primary content of the page.
> 2. A table of metadata (e.g. author, created date, modified date) for
> the primary content of the page.
> 3. A footer containing a link to the CMS software that serves the page.
>
> I think each of these matches the ARIA definition of "metadata that
> applies to the parent document".
>
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> Toby A Inkster
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> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
>
>


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