[whatwg] Outline Depth Does Not Correspond to Sectioning Depth?

Hugh Guiney hugh.guiney at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 17:32:53 PDT 2012


On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's possible they'd gotten confused by the fact that the first
> heading in a section, no matter what rank it is, is more-or-less
> equivalent to a <h1> as far as the outlining algorithm is concerned.

Actually his stated reason was that the spec says "the outline that s
finds itself in" which he interpreted as "the current outlinee".
Perhaps this should be rephrased to "the document outline that s finds
itself in", or similar, so it isn't confused as a sub-outline.



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