Re: [whatwg] ? Please?

2012-03-04 Thread Hugh Guiney
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > The only thing it adds to the grouping is the ability to have a subsection > that is then followed by more content from the subsection's parent > section. You couldn't do that with alone. However, for > that's more of a negative than a positi

Re: [whatwg] ? Please?

2012-03-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Hugh Guiney wrote: > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> Then why is in the spec? > > > > To make it easier to move subsections around without having to change > > all the s to s and so forth. > > That's it? That, and to give authors a common way to refe

Re: [whatwg] ? Please?

2012-03-04 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Hugh Guiney schrieb am Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:32:35 -0500: > […] my most common problem with s is styling them, but it's > hardly CSS's fault. What kind of styling am I attempting to do? > Mostly, to arrange them in columns. > > […] > > I've tried, and as far as I can tell, this can't be achieved w

Re: [whatwg] ? Please?

2012-03-04 Thread Sean Hogan
On 5/03/12 10:06 AM, Hugh Guiney wrote: On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: Then why is in the spec? To make it easier to move subsections around without having to change all thes tos and so forth. That's it? So the fact that it provides explicit grouping and styling are unint

Re: [whatwg] ? Please?

2012-03-04 Thread Hugh Guiney
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> Then why is in the spec? > > To make it easier to move subsections around without having to change all > the s to s and so forth. That's it? So the fact that it provides explicit grouping and styling are unintentional side-effects? I don't th

Re: [whatwg] ? Please?

2012-03-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Hugh Guiney wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > There are a number of places in HTML where it would be nice to be able > > to group things together -- just look at how often people stick s > > in their pages for no purpose whatsoever other than sty

Re: [whatwg] ? Please?

2012-03-04 Thread Hugh Guiney
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > There are a number of places in HTML where it would be nice to be able to > group things together -- just look at how often people stick s in > their pages for no purpose whatsoever other than styling. > > This shouldn't be necessary. It's a lim