[whatwg] WA1 - The Section Header Problem

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote:
> 
>    Fine, then if we're doing away with vendor UA interpretations of headers,
> let's specifically define them as only having the following semantic meaning:
> 
>    1) Header elements contain only two kinds of header information: the header
> title and the importance of the document segment is heads.
> 
>    2) Headers can indicate the beginning of a document segment, but otherwise
> have no other structural meaning. They would not indicate the depth of a
> segment within a document structure, nor its relation to other segments.
> 
>    3) The value of "n" in an <hn> element, a.k.a. the importance level, has no
> affect semantic meaning related to document structure. It is meant only to
> indicate the importance of the information contained in the document segment
> that follows it.
> 
>    On a side note, I've also been considering having the |level| attribute of
> <section> automatically take the level of the first heading inside the
> <section> element, unless that heading is an <h> element.
> 
> | <section>
> |  <h2>Header A</h2>
> |  <section>
> |   <h>Header B</h>
> |  </section>
> | </section>
> 
>    In the above example, "Header A" would have an importance level of two, and
> "Header B" would have the importance level of three.
> 
>    Hmm. Not sure if I like that or not. What do you think?

It's not clear to me why this would be better than what we now have.

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