On Apr 26, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Apr 25, 2012 9:20 PM, "Andrés Sanhueza" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I see no reason a >>> <footer> as in "textual metadata of a section" can't be inside a >>> <header> ("lead of a section"). Could this be considered to be >>> allowed? >> >> Do you have a real example where you think that markup would be useful? >> >> If user agents provide commands to navigate to headers and footers, nesting >> them could make navigation confusing. > > One was presented in another thread - according to the definition of > <footer>, it appears that authorship information is most appropriate > to put there. But sometimes the byline is placed inside the "header" > area, which is reasonably marked up with a <header>. So, it makes > sense to be able to nest the <footer> within the <header>. It may be useful to have distinctive markup to identify a byline within a header. But placing a <footer> element inside a <header> element does not seem like the most clear way to do that. I expect most authors would not think to use it that way, and content consumers would have a hard time distinguishing intentional cases of such use from authoring errors. Regards, Maciej
