[whatwg] HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2.0

[James Graham]

Brian Smith wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
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>> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Henri Sivonen wrote:
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>>> Anyway, I do think it's a problem for styling, automatic content 
>>> extraction and non-CSS presentation that HTML lacks the markup for 
>>> indicating which parts of the page are content proper and which are 
>>> navigation and other chrome. Therefore, a footer element 
>>>       
>> for isolating 
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>>> navigation and legal stuff from content would make sense. (Already 
>>> suggested in 
>>>
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>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002Aug/0229.html at the 
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>>> end of the message.)
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>> I hope the <nav>, <footer>, and <article> elements help this case.
>>     
>
> How should advertisements be marked up?
>   
It's worth considering that an <advert> element (or <banner> or whatever 
you decide to call it) would just cause style rules like advert 
{display:none;} to  become widespread (e.g. by integration into Adblock 
and equivalent). Therefore I can't see this type of markup being used by 
most advertisers.