Hello,
Seth Honeycutt wrote:
Would it be possible to create a module element (perhaps <module> or
<mod>) to distinguish secondary content that often appears in small
blocks to the sides of the main content. You already have the new
elements <header>, <footer>, <nav>, and <article> which describe the
type of content in the structure of the document more than just using
generic <div> containers. I am mostly concerned with this in mobile web
applications where, such as on a cell phone or PDA, you could improve
readability and navigation of a web page by being able to jump directly
to just the navigation for a page with the <nav> element or go directly
to the main content within a page with <article> elements.
Many modern web pages have several blocks of secondary content on the
top, bottom, and sides of the main content of the page. If you would use
<article> elements for these blocks of content there would be no way for
a mobile browser to distinguish these from the main content of the page..
For example, you could use <mod> to define content modules for site
search, user login, local weather, upcoming events, polls, shout box,
etc. The main content of the page would then be defined in <article>
elements for things like blog entries, a news article, or whatever main
content was requested by the URI. The side blocks of content often do
not relate directly to the main content requested, but more to the
website as a whole– many times appearing on every page of a site.
Defining these blocks of content differently would allow a mobile
browser to differentiate these from the main content of the page. A
mobile browser could then have a feature to list all of the modules on a
page so you could select and view each one separately.. For example:
I'm not sure, but isn't "aside" element more or less what you're looking
for?
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-aside-element
Ondřej Kučera
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Cheers,
Ondřej Kučera
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