[whatwg] <comment> element in HTML5 Spec?

Ashley Sheridan ash at ashleysheridan.co.uk
Mon Dec 13 12:36:03 PST 2010


On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 12:33 -0800, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Ashley Sheridan
> <ash at ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
> > Would <aside> be more contextually accurate in the case of user-generated comments? I was of the understanding that <aside> elements were content that was related to the main <article> but not necessarily part of it.
> 
> The opposite, actually.  <aside> indicates things that are *un*related
> to the main content, or only tangentially related.  That's why it's
> appropriate for things like sidebars on a blog, or pull-quotes in an
> article.
> 
> ~TJ



Ah, my bad then, I thought it was intended as a sort of boxout thing
like you might find in a magazine.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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