[whatwg] additional empty elements

[Alexey Feldgendler]

On Tue, 01 May 2007 21:21:20 +0200, Brenton Strine  
<Brenton.Strine at citrix.com> wrote:

> A nice solution would be the addition of a few div tags.
> (e.g. <div2>, <div3>, <div4> and <div5>.) Then you could
> do something like this:

HTML is a language for markup meaningful by itself, not just as a hook for  
CSS. <div2> doesn't mean anything.

> I am okay with the unimaginative numbering of the extra
> elements, as it would make it easy to have a lot of new
> elements. However, there are countless possibilities:
> <section>, <chunk>, <partition>, <block>, <enclosure>,
> <zone>, <figure>, <sector>, <quadrant> etc...

This is something that WHATWG is already doing (<section>, <footer> etc),  
basing on the popularity of certain classnames found in the wild.


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