> Hope you're not just trolling I was just trying to make the point that an algorithmic approach to finding the main content of a document would still be necessary with or without the <main> element.
☺ On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiff...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Tim Leverett <zzzz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Explicit author markup would make such a task so much easier. >> >> Only if every author marked up their code correctly. If some authors use >> incorrect markup, then an algorithm would still be necessary for >> determining if each usage was correct. >> > > Hope you're not just trolling. > > From a browser perspective, if there is one <main> element and it sits > within <body>, that would be sufficiently correct. > > Whether it's semantically correct for a particular application, that's not > something the HTML spec should or could deal with. We don't protect people > from putting the wrong text in tags - not in microdata, not in <article> or > anywhere else. An application may care - or they may trust the author and > if the author cares enough, they will fix up their markup if it doesn't > achieve the right goal. > > But I'm sure you were just trolling... ;-) > > Cheers, > Silvia. >
