[whatwg] Giving the <body> tag a new meaning.

Tue Mar 1 11:25:11 PST 2011

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM, usuario <soyhobo at gmail.com> wrote:
> According to the spec:
> The body element represents the body of a document (as opposed to the
> document’s metadata).
>
> I think definition is a bit ambiguous.
>
> We may think in giving it a more explicit meaning, and freeing it for
> semantic availability (just an example):
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html>
>    <head> <!--<metadata>, <system>, <config> -->
>        <meta></meta>
>        <script></script>
>        <link></link>
>    </head>
>    <markup> <!-- <window>, <render>, <main>, <app>, <structure> -->
>        <header>
>            <h1></h1>
>            <p></p>
>        </header>
>        <body>
>            <p></p>
>            <p></p>
>        </body>
>        <footer>
>            <p></p>
>        </footer>
>    </markup>
> </html>

I don't understand what problem you're trying to solve, nor what your
proposal is.

Are you proposing to rename <body>?  If so, there are significant
legacy constraints preventing that (namely, a lot of code depends on a
missing <body> tag being inferred).

~TJ