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I wonder if anyone can help me...<BR>
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I attended great talk today by Bruce Lawson from Opera about HTML5. I was wondering, is there any plan to implement a <comment> element within the HTML5 spec? I’m suggesting this as a complimentary element to the <article> element. <BR>
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I believe it could be useful as it could be used to differentiate between audience generated content and article-author generated content. This could enable search engines to differentiate between the 2 types of content, and weigh them differently in different searches. Semantically and structurally, something like this seems to make sense.<BR>
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This would mean huge implications for all the blogs out there, and the increasing number of commenting systems on News outlets.<BR>
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Cool, let me know if this has already been covered, or if it’s not a good idea, why? :)<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
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Rich<BR>
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Rich Summers <BR>
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