[whatwg] Footer inside header

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
<bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2012 9:20 PM, "Andrés Sanhueza" <peroyomaslists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I see no reason a
>> <footer> as in "textual metadata of a section" can't be inside a
>> <header> ("lead of a section"). Could this be considered to be
>> allowed?
>
> Do you have a real example where you think that markup would be useful?
>
> If user agents provide commands to navigate to headers and footers, nesting
> them could make navigation confusing.

One was presented in another thread - according to the definition of
<footer>, it appears that authorship information is most appropriate
to put there.  But sometimes the byline is placed inside the "header"
area, which is reasonably marked up with a <header>.  So, it makes
sense to be able to nest the <footer> within the <header>.

~TJ