- From: Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:19:00 +0200 (EET)
- To: Nigel Peck - MIS Web Design <nigel@miswebdesign.com>
- cc: "Philip TAYLOR [PC336/H-XP]" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>, www-html@w3.org
On 2003-02-12, Nigel Peck - MIS Web Design uttered to Sampo Syreeni: >Nothing, but I'm writing an article for beginners so I want to start them >out on the right foot. True. However, I think it's a misconception that everything on a page (or in a document) should cover a single, identifiable subject. Take news pages, weblogs, corpora or the like. They all present many unrelated topics, and not always something that can be unified under a single heading. The point about H1's and TITLE's is a valid one, too. I usually take head>title to be a meta-topic, and as such not necessarily something we'd want the user to see. There are situations where you'd want your document to have a single topic, not visible to the larger crowd, but still affecting classification and searches, while all the while having multiple top-level, visible titles that differ from the meta one. H1 is a visible title, though, and forbidding more than one at the top level would seem to me an arbitrary restriction -- there's no reason why one couldn't have a document with many unrelated subtopics, and no unifying higher level heading. What I'm thinking is, paper conventions are catching up on you... ;) To sum, your comments might apply to TITLE. I don't think they do to H1's. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
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