On Dec 12, 2007 3:40 AM, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I read all the e-mails quoted below, and my conclusion is that <lede> or > <lead> is not compelling enough to warrant its own element. It's also not > _that_ common -- a sample of a dozen or so news sites indexed by Google > News for the keyword "first lego league" just now didn't find any articles > with leads (though a wider search did find a couple that had summary > paragraphs before the article itself, which could arguably be taken to be > lead paragraphs). > > I think that <b> is actually the right element to use here -- "a span of > text to be stylistically offset from the normal prose without conveying > any extra importance". I've added an example to the spec that shows how to > do this.
I understand that ledes are only sometimes style differently, but they are always present, and I was considering more the point that Elliotte Harold brought up, "Some of the ugliest XSLT I've ever written exists primarily to extract unmarked-up leads from paragraphs." This element would be extremely useful to news aggregators, as well as it's potential styling in the document itself. To repeat myself, "[This element] would be useful to news aggregators in particular as an alternative to using the first sentence (Google), the first paragraph (Yahoo) or the meta description(bbc)." That's all I can say. I understand if this element does not reach the threshold of significance for a new element. -Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney
