[whatwg] HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2.0
James Graham
jg307 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Feb 12 01:42:35 PST 2008
Brian Smith wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>>
>>> Anyway, I do think it's a problem for styling, automatic content
>>> extraction and non-CSS presentation that HTML lacks the markup for
>>> indicating which parts of the page are content proper and which are
>>> navigation and other chrome. Therefore, a footer element
>>>
>> for isolating
>>
>>> navigation and legal stuff from content would make sense. (Already
>>> suggested in
>>>
>>>
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002Aug/0229.html at the
>>
>>> end of the message.)
>>>
>> I hope the <nav>, <footer>, and <article> elements help this case.
>>
>
> How should advertisements be marked up?
>
It's worth considering that an <advert> element (or <banner> or whatever
you decide to call it) would just cause style rules like advert
{display:none;} to become widespread (e.g. by integration into Adblock
and equivalent). Therefore I can't see this type of markup being used by
most advertisers.
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