On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Shannon wrote: > > The accuracy of your statement depends largely on whether the > specification allows the content source to be defined across all joined > blocks or only in the first. For example: > > <div id="col1"><p>first para</p><p>second para</p></div> > ... other unrelated markup ... > <div join="col1"><p>third para</p></div> > > This markup would be common when the author is trying to support legacy > or non-CSS browsers.
I agree that such markup would be common today, but I think that we should design the language with the intent to move past this style. I would much, much rather see documents that <section> elements for each section, and then have the CSS split the section block into multiple boxes, than have the markup itself have each final resulting box split into different <div>s. In the meantime, having blocks split into separate <div>s is the only way forward, but I think we can work around the accessibility problems of this by including links to the next part at the end of each block. I don't think we should add new features to handle this in HTML, I'd rather add them to CSS. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
