I tried to analyse the use cases here: http://blog.gingertech.net/2012/11/28/the-use-cases-for-a-main-element-in-html/
I've not seen any place where @role=main was misused and I think the same would be the case for <main>. At least I don't see why it would be misused any more than the other semantic elements that were introduced such as <article>, <header> and <aside>, so I don't see why they would make sense to be supported while <main> doesn't. Cheers, Silvia. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Ojan Vafai <o...@chromium.org> wrote: > As I said on the thread you link to, I don't think this element addresses > any real use-cases. I think people are far too likely to misuse this for it > to be useful for things like readability to use. > > If Apple really wants this, I won't object, but my preference would be to > not implement this. > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Steve Faulkner > <faulkner.st...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> this is my first post to the list. >> >> I have submitted a patch [1] to add <main> element support to webkit and >> would appreciate your consideration. >> >> the main element is defined here: >> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-extensions/raw-file/tip/maincontent/index.html >> current >> status unofficial draft, CFC [2] to publish as a first working draft via >> HTML WG ends today. >> >> Rationale and use cases: >> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/User:Sfaulkne/main-usecases#Introduction >> >> details of data set and data analysis conducted during development of >> feature: >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Oct/0109.html >> >> There has been discussion and feedback provided on the WHATWG list [3] >> and IRC and at TPAC 2012 HTML WG meeting. >> >> I look forward to your comments! >> >> >> [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103172 >> [2] >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Nov/thread.html#msg129 >> [3] threads start here: >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Nov/thread.html#msg55 >> >> -- >> with regards >> >> Steve Faulkner >> Technical Director - TPG >> >> www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com | >> www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner >> >> <http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > >
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