On 4/30/10 8:02 AM, Nikita Popov wrote:
I personally prefer using <h1-6> and do not see, why always using <h1>
may be better.
If you're the only author, sure (maybe; see below).
If you're one of several co-authors on a document, with sectioning
structure in flux, and you're supposed to produce one of the sections
but don't know how deeply nested your section will be in the final
document, then how are you supposed to use <h1-6> correctly?
Similarly, if you have a document being edited by one author, sections
being changed, etc, it's easy for the 1-6 to get out of sync with
reality. Sane document-preparation systems auto-number and auto-size
the headings for you. This is just an attempt to have that in HTML.
What would make much more sense, is to omit the rank fully, so only only
has to write <h>.
Yes, and I'm fairly certain that's been discussed in the past. But <h1>
already exists, and people already use it and the new uses will degrade
gracefully in UAs not supporting the new spec text much better than uses
of <h> would.
Beyond that, using <h> instead of <h1> would even be more backwards
compatible to the HTML 4 use of headings.
But not to existing HTML4 UAs...
-Boris
