- From: Joanne Hunter <jrhunter@menagerie.tf>
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:26:50 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
The following text was discovered Saturday 28 September 2002 in a note
attributed to one ""Curtis C. Hovey" <chovey@cox.net>":
> From section:
> The section element, in conjunction with the h element, offers a
> mechanism for structuring documents into sections.
>
> From div:
> The div element, in conjunction with the id and class attributes, offer
> a generic mechanism for adding structure to documents.
>
> But section also may use the id and class attributes as any HTML element
> may.
>
> I don't think HTML needs a section, div can be used with h instead.
I think the reason for having a new element here is that <div>'s semantics
are already pretty much defined as being arbitrary and more or less
nonexistent, while <section> is intended to have fairly well defined
semantics.
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