[html5] Distinguish main article from comments

[Ian Hickson]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Brian Tremblay wrote:
> On 11/18/12 8:25 AM, Markus Ernst wrote:
> > 
> > there are some types of webpages with a main article, and user 
> > comments; these are very common at news websites and blogs. I think it 
> > would be useful to mark up the main article specifically in order to 
> > give it a higher weight in search engines than the user contributed 
> > comments.
> 
> I'd say:
> 
> <article>
>   <h1>Cicero dictos est</h1>
>   <p>
>     Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
>     adipisicing elit,
>     sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut
>     labore et dolore magna aliqua....
>   </p>
>   <section>
>     <h1>comments</h1>
>     <article>
>       <h1>bonus est</h1>
>       <p>great article;
>        your Latin is excellent!</p>
>     </article>
>     <article>
>       <h1>malus est</h1>
>       <p>terrible article;
>        you misspelled "dictus", you moron</p>
>     </article>
>   </section>
> </article>
> 
> That way, the comments are a part of the article, as they should be, but 
> each within its own article, and all of them inside a section. So each 
> comment is 2 levels down from the main article.

That's indeed what the spec suggests.

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