https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671
--- Comment #52 from Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> 2010-07-26 13:24:29 UTC --- (In reply to comment #50) > Regarding use cases for the address element, I forgot to mention the best one: > to mark up a talk-page user sig. This is invalid in HTML5: """ The address element represents the contact information for its nearest article or body element ancestor. If that is the body element, then the contact information applies to the document as a whole. . . . The address element must not be used to represent arbitrary addresses (e.g. postal addresses), unless those addresses are in fact the relevant contact information. (The p element is the appropriate element for marking up postal addresses in general.) """ http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html#the-address-element <address> is actually a weird element, its name is very misleading. A correct usage can be found at http://aryeh.name/siteinfo.html, for example. Most usages in the real world are wrong per the specs. It never meant just "an address". So on a wiki, with no <article> elements, it would only be legitimate to use it to give contact info for the author of the whole page. Which is a very marginal use. But in the end, probably almost no one will use it correctly or incorrectly, so meh, whatever. (In reply to comment #51) > Right. It may not be helpful in places like this to play devil's advocate, > since the other side is liable to take it seriously and argue against the > position. :-/ I wasn't consciously doing it, I just have an unfortunate tendency to argue on principle. > HTMLWG: Okay, I can concede on that, if your HTML5 proposal is rejected AND > you > appeal the rejection AND the appeal looks like it might go somewhere. I would > not want us to postpone implementation of kbd and samp for a year or more > otherwise, though. Kind of a WP:SNOWBALL thing, really. But, I've already > agreed that if there's genuine uncertainty, they shouldn't be implemented. I won't appeal any rejection -- I don't care enough and I doubt the appeal would be accepted. If anyone in charge of HTML5 is going to agree with me, it will be Hixie, not the co-chairs. > Definitely proper in HTML5 > http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/address.html Nope, definitely improper, see above. It represents contact info for the <body> or <article> it's in, not arbitrary contact info. > Ick. I wonder it we could actually expect editors to not put quotation marks > in manually, or have MW work around it if they do? Sounds problematic (and > again a good reason to fork that one into its own bug number). The idea is that they'll be auto-added in CSS. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
