Hi Kat,
I was there too (WE05) and heard the same line! What Tantek was referring to
was saying if your header for your webpage JUST contains say a title and
logo, then there may be no need whatsoever to include the extra <div>
element (i.e. a <h1> with a background image and text). So what Tantek was
getting at was for us to challenge ourselves to make sure when marking-up a
page we don't fall into the trap of thinking everyone includes container,
content, header and footer <div>'s, so therefore that must be the standard.
He was making us critically look at every element included in the page and
to make sure we only include the least amount and most semantic elements
possible. At least that's what I thought he was getting at.
Regards
Nathan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katrina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Web Standards Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 10:35 AM
Subject: [WSG] WE05
Gday,
I was lucky enough to be able to attend WE05, and I was listening to
something Tantek Celik said and I've been mulling it over for a few days,
and I just thought I'd ask a group who'd know.
Context: I'm a uni student, so I don't know much.
Going back to Tantek Celik, he was referring to meaningful markup and he
said
"Who has ever seen a div with a class of header? Why not use a header
(eg.<h1>) element?"
I may not have understood that. I may have misheard that. I'm sorry if I
did.
Aren't the header tags reserved for text? Is it acceptable form to place
non-textual elements only inside of header tags? Eg. <h1><img
src="image.jpg" alt="An image"></h1> ?
Kat
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