<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">HTML is not a "multi-page" language. Each file is about a single page. To add a <PAGE> element, no matter the name, would also require you to add new <TITLE> and other <META> elements.<div><br></div><div>What you are describing is the reason <SECTION> exists. If you don't feel it is a section, then they should each be separate files pulled in via AJAX (that helps with your progressive enhancement as well).</div><div><br></div><div>The only reason I've heard for a <PAGE> element that makes sense is the wrapper functionality, and that's a design need, not semantic.</div><div><br></div><div>nz</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:59 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Alastair Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ac@alastc.com" target="_blank">ac@alastc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div>On 18 Mar 2010, at 20:25, Mike Schinkel wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>It would be used for the visible portions of a page (vs. the non-visible portions that are contained in the body like <script> tags and the CSS visibility:hidden and display:none.</div>
</div></blockquote></div><div>If they are hidden, does it matter if they are in the body/page?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
Yes. Example: (a multi-page wizard that uses Javascript to move from page to page):<br><br><style><br>page {visibility:hidden;}<br>page.current-page {visibility:visible;}<br></style><br><body><br></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><page id="1" class="current-page">...</page><br>
<page id="2">...</page><br><page id="3">...</page></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
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<div>A screen reader would read what's inside this <page> element and typically ignore what's outside. </div></div></blockquote></div>As they do for body.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
Are you making a counterpoint? It seems that your point is valid but is not an argument against <page>, or did I miss something?<br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br>-Mike</blockquote>
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