On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Geoff Pack wrote:
Why does the HTML5 spec say The div element represents nothing at all?
[http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-div]
Div clearly stands for 'division', as was specified in the HTML 3.2
spec: DIV elements can be used to structure HTML
liorean wrote:
...
Sections allow some things that are impossible with the outline
hierarchy of HTML4. In HTML4, once you had a header you needed a
header of the same level or higher to make a paragraph not belong to
that header. With sections you can make paragraphs belong to headers
above the
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liorean wrote:
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Sections allow some things that are impossible with the outline
Dnia 01-03-2008, So o godzinie 19:37 -0800, Nicholas C. Zakas pisze:
Reading your description makes me think that you're more displeased
with the hn/ elements than you are happy with the section/
element. I've never had issues promoting headers or moving content
around, and I'm not clear
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Nicholas C. Zakas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From this description, it seems like the section/ element has little
use. If you're talking about writing articles, most authors consider the
start and end of sections as implicitly defined by headings. Making this
using
different hn/ elements seem more confusing to me than just using the hn/
elements.
-Nicholas
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On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Nicholas Zakas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I don't think it's as clear as you make it out to be. A section and a
division. I hate to consult a dictionary on this, but one definition for
section is subdivision. The naming alone does not make it clear what the
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote (with snippage):
In HTML5, the hx hierarchy is explicitly ignored. Instead, they're
all treated the same. The actual heading level is determined by
section nesting.
That doesn't sound correct to me. If they were all the same we could
drop h1 to h6 and just use h.
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Dave Hodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote (with snippage):
In HTML5, the hx hierarchy is explicitly ignored. Instead, they're
all treated the same. The actual heading level is determined by
section nesting.
That doesn't sound correct
. It's just extra
syntax to represent something that is more easily represented without it.
-Nicholas
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On Fri, Feb
Sorry for the double for those of you on both lists. I sent a reply to
the wrong mailing list again :(
On 01/03/2008, Nicholas C. Zakas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From this description, it seems like the section/ element has little use.
If you're talking about writing articles, most authors
Geoff Pack wrote:
Why does the HTML5 spec say The div element represents nothing at all ?
[http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-div]
snip
Personally I'd describe it more along the lines of:
The div element is a generic way of representing document structure,
but offers no
I'm still not clear to me how section/ is anything more than a div/. HTML4
said: The DIV and SPAN elements, in conjunction with the id and class
attributes, offer a generic mechanism for adding structure to documents
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-DIV). Isn't that the
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm still not clear to me how section/ is anything more than a div/.
HTML4 said: The DIV and SPAN elements, in conjunction with the id and class
attributes, offer a generic mechanism for adding structure to documents (
Why does the HTML5 spec say The div element represents nothing at all ?
[http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-div]
Div clearly stands for 'division', as was specified in the HTML 3.2 spec:
DIV elements can be used to structure HTML documents as a hierarchy of
divisions.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why does the HTML5 spec say The div element represents nothing at all ?
[http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-div]
Div clearly stands for 'division', as was specified in the HTML 3.2 spec:
DIV elements
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