[whatwg] HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2.0

Brian Smith brian at briansmith.org
Mon Feb 11 20:49:02 PST 2008


Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> > 
> > 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 
> > navigation and legal stuff from content would make sense. (Already 
> > suggested in 
> > 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002Aug/0229.html at the 
> > end of the message.)
> 
> I hope the <nav>, <footer>, and <article> elements help this case.

How should advertisements be marked up?

- Brian




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