Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > Micky, you seem to misunderstand what I mean. When I say "consistency > across the site", I mean that you should be consistent in your approach > on every page. I.e. if you decide to mark up your site title as H1, then > you should also mark it up as H1 on every other page of your site.
I think I got you right, you say: "if you decide to mark up your site title as H1, then you should also mark it up as H1 on every other page of your site" and I postulate quite the opposite. Having the site title on the homepage inside a H1, to me, does not force you to have it always as a H1. That is, I do not think that that consistency should be honored. I still think we have to apply semantics on a page by page basis (and I think the w3c agrees with me on that as the specs are about pages, not sites) I think I'm repeating myself. Oh well... Lisa: >"the fact that pages are linked to each other implies a relationship" I don't think it does by any means. But I understand what you are trying to say :o) And I agree with you in that it should, but the fact is it does not. We have only one way of tagging a site (there should be a whole spec on sites, XHTMLCollection 1.0 or something like that; I've dreaming of something like this for years) and that is through the rel attribute, whether on A or META. That way we can mark a page as index, start, etc. and even create our own profiles (though the people at w3c stupidly forgot to write a spec on profiles) to add even more rel values. But, stubborn though I may sound, I still believe that following specs and semantics, H1 on site's title should not mean the site title should always be H1. Two things I would like your opinion on: 1. If I mention the site title in the middle of a paragraph: <h1>Coca Loca</h1> [as many tags as you want] <p>Here at Coca Loca we are devoted to...</p> should it be like this?: <h1>Coca Loca</h1> [as many tags as you want] <p>Here at <h1>Coca Loca</h1> we are devoted to...</p> but styled not to be a block, blah, blah, blah 2. Can we repeat the H1? We can do so with the other Hn. (please no MSWORD comparisons) 3. So if the site title gets always H1, and its sections H2, what does "Table of Contents" get? ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
