[whatwg] article: do we really need this?

Alexey Feldgendler alexey at feldgendler.ru
Tue Mar 6 00:37:42 PST 2007


On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:17:43 +0100, fantasai  
<fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net> wrote:

> For printing, the <article> element would make it easy to cut out
> extraneous content and print just the main content of a web page.

It just occurred to me: because of this particular possibility, it's  
probable that <article> either won't be used or will be abused so that  
advertisements are put inside <article> instead of being left outside.  
Otherwise it will be too easy for a user to hide all ads (e.g. with a  
toggle button).

BTW, there's no easy way in today's CSS to hide everything except  
<article>.


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