[whatwg] A plea to Hixie to adopt <main>

Ian Yang ian at invigoreight.com
Thu Nov 15 03:27:31 PST 2012


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Tim Leverett <zzzzbov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally, I'd rather see <main> be more about marking up content in
> general, such as in this example which is invalid given the current state
> of the spec:
> <article id=1>
>   <header />
>   <main />
>   <footer />
> </article>
> <article id=2>
>   <header />
>   <main />
>   <footer />
> </article>
>
> ...although this would probably fit better as a <content> element, and
> would require a whole other line of discussion that can wait for another
> day.
>
>>

That's a good idea. We really need an element to wrap all the <p>s, <ul>s,
<ol>s, <figure>s, <table>s ... etc of a blog post.



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