[html5] Using <section> and <h1> ? Theoretical?

Jukka K. Korpela jukka.k.korpela at kolumbus.fi
Wed May 14 09:39:59 PDT 2014


2014-05-14 19:33, Brian Tremblay wrote:
> On 5/14/14, 9:30 AM, Bruce Lawson wrote:
>> On 14 May 2014 17:22, Brian Tremblay <webmaster at tsmchughs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What does the html 4 outline do?
>>
>> there isn't such a concept in HTML4
>
> That's sort of my point. The W3C are denigrating the html5 whatwg 
> outline model (<h1> in nested sections) because the outline is a 
> fiction. But what do authors lose by using that, instead of <h2-6>?
>

They lose by having their all <h1> elements interpreted as 1st level 
heading.

If you declare everything as first-level, nothing is first-level; first 
level only exists as opposite to other levels.

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