Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Yuvalik Webdesign wrote: The spec is not very clear anywhere about styling practices (I know this is CSS' job, but within HTML the mark-up should at least be mentioned). Could you elaborate on what you had in mind? Note that default styles are listed in

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Yuvalik Webdesign wrote: A) In the NAV element it says: In particular, it is common for footers to have a list of links to various key parts of a site, but the footer element is more appropriate in such cases, and no nav element is necessary for those links. But then

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
From: Ian Hickson C) When talking about outline (in the context of sectioning) I gather we are NOT talking about the DOM-tree, but about (a Table Of) Contents kind of outline. Right. Does a generic page-header and footer (containing a site-wide logo, style and navigation)

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
From: Ian Hickson [mailto:i...@hixie.ch] Please file specific bugs or send specific e-mails for each example you think should be reworked; there are over 300 examples in the spec and without knowing what is wrong with each one, if I just go through them all and change them, they're just

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Ian Hickson [mailto:i...@hixie.ch] Please file specific bugs or send specific e-mails for each example you think should be reworked; there are over 300 examples in the spec and without knowing what is

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
From: Tab Atkins Jr. Definitely not; it's part of the application. From your snippet, the page seems to be built as a picture-app, which means both the image and the thumbnails work together; neither is tangential to the purpose of the page like a sidebar would be. I think this is the

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-12 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Tab Atkins Jr. iframe src=example1_jpg.html name=detail p A long story regarding the companies' origins and goals... /p div id=advert.../div ul       lia target=detail

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-11 Thread Jeremy Keith
Evert wrote: I am still having problems accepting the differences between section and article though. I understand when to use one over the other, but what was the background for choosing two elements instead of one? What is the drawback of defining just one in the spec (either section or

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-10 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
From: Tab Atkins Jr. I meant it when I said you were overthinking things. ^_^ Don't try too hard; the categories are general and pretty simple. Very well, perhaps I am overcomplicating things a bit. I'll try to be a bit less stringent in my mark-up (I guess I am trying to be too much of

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: B) It also says for ASIDE that: The aside element represents a section of a page that consists of content that is tangentially related to the content around the aside element, and which could be considered

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-09 Thread Yuvalik Webdesign
From: Tab Atkins Jr. Also, a side-bar, what is that, since side-bars are usually separately layed-out and not always directly around the content. You're interpreting around too strictly here. It means just nearby here. It means exactly what it says - aside can be used for marking up

Re: [whatwg] Some discrepencies and example remarks

2009-10-09 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Yuvalik Webdesign postmas...@yuvalik.org wrote: From: Tab Atkins Jr. Also, a side-bar, what is that, since side-bars are usually separately layed-out and not always directly around the content. You're interpreting around too strictly here.  It means just