On Feb 16, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Chris Rockwell <ch...@chrisrockwell.com> wrote:

> I'm afraid I misunderstand you here, John:  "semantic markup of HTML5 is 
> limited to entire divs,"; this might not be farther from the truth.  A <div> 
> is a very abstract way to markup content and there is most likely a better 
> way to do it in every case - p, ul, blockquote, etc, etc.


What I mean is that the semantic markup in HTML5 deals with the large chunk as 
opposed to the specific word or couple of words..

Section, Article, H tags..whereas <span> allows the author to drill down to the 
specific within those chunks..even as small as 1 letter or 1 bit of punctuation.
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