[whatwg] several messages about <section>, <p>, <hr>, and related subjects

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2008-02-27 à 2:17, Ian Hickson a écrit :

> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Michel Fortin wrote:
>> Le 6 avr. 2006 à 6:44, Alexey Feldgendler a écrit :
>>>
>>> This heading shouldn't be within the document's main tree of  
>>> headings.
>>> It should be completely taken out, that's what "aside" means. But it
>>> can't be done in a backwards compatible way.
>>
>> Hum, that's true; it seems to be a general issue with asides, not
>> limited to figures. Using aside to indicate a sidebar on a page
>> shouldn't be much of a problem because the sidebar is usually  
>> outside of
>> the main content and can have the same heading level as the main
>> content. But aside content inserted in the middle of the text is  
>> already
>> problematic from the semantic standpoint in HTML 4, and become a  
>> problem
>> to any outliner if it contains headers.
>>
>> Maybe there could be a <h> element. This way you can use <h1>, <h2>,
>> etc. for the main content and <h> for any content outside the main
>> outline of the document, like asides. Its use wouldn't be mandatory,
>> just like you don't have to use the "right" heading number anymore,  
>> but
>> recommended for aside backward compatibility with outliners. It could
>> also be used in the main content for the 7th heading level and  
>> beyond.
>
> I don't understand the problem being described here.

The idea was to add <h> for use inside <aside> so you can remove the  
header from the main flow for old outliners not supporting the HTML5  
outline algorithm. I don't think it has a very strong use-case; I was  
simply pointing it as a solution to the backward compatibility problem  
Alexey mentioned.


Michel Fortin
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