Ian Hickson: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Nikita Popov wrote: >> Beyond that, using <h> instead of <h1> would even be more backwards >> compatible to the HTML 4 use of headings. > > Actually, it would be less compatible, since it wouldn't render like a > heading in older browsers.
XHTML2’s ‘h’ is, especially in this regard, closer to HTML5’s ‘hgroup’ than to ‘h1’. <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html#the-hgroup-element> | The |hgroup| element represents the heading of a section. (…) | The rank of an |hgroup| element is the rank of the highest-ranked | |h1|–|h6| element descendant of the |hgroup| element, if there are | any such elements, or otherwise the same as for an |h1| element (…). <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-structural.html#sec_8.5.> | Structured headings use the single |h| element, in combination with | the |section| element to indicate the structure of the document, | and the nesting of the sections indicates the importance of the | heading. The heading for the section is the one that is a child | of the |section| element. PS: No, I’m not proposing (again) to rename ‘hgroup’.