I think that in the original case, the date can't really be perceived as
a header item. And moreover, although I'm embroiled in a similar thread
on another list arguing against tradition, I feel that having an h[n]
immediately following an h[n-1] is very strange.
However there are a few things I'd like to say about header semantics
generally.
- Love of the DOM will not teach you good English. HTML is as full of
(often ambiguous) tags as it is to accommodate writers, not vice-versa.
- Headers do not grow on trees. ie The logic of having:
h1
h2
h3
h3
h2
h1
h2
h2
...is flawed. Headers do not contain anything other than themselves.
- There are plenty of real-world examples of documents where the header
is not the first object on the page - in the case of the news article
mentioned; letters where an address contextualizes the document before
its subject becomes apparent...
- There is a reason <h1> and <title> are distinct. One might think this
is simply because the same object cannot simultaneously be in the head
and body of a document, but that's not necessarily true. A <title> may
contain what the body would display as a combination of h# tags, for
instance <title>Organization - Your profile</title> =
<h1>Organization</h1> <h2>Members area</h2> ... <h1>Your profile</h1>
Regards,
Barney
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