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 > >
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