2013-01-15 14:15, Ian Yang wrote:

> The one came into my mind is blog comments, which are often
coded using untitled <article>s. But personally I think that is wrong
because every sectioning element should have a heading.

Using headings is generally a very good authoring principle, but there are exceptions. Small comments rarely benefit from titles (headings).

A very different example is a novel. A novel is almost always divided into sections, and sections may have subsections (visually separated e.g. using extra empty space or maybe "***"). The sections may or may not have title. Often they have just numbers, presented as titles like "Chapter 1", so they are more or less pseudo-titles (and could be replaced by CSS-generated content). Subsections almost never have headings.

So what a browser could do, with a novel that uses <section>, is to provide an outline of the structure, possibly so that along with numbers, there are short excerpts from the start of each section or subsection.

Yucca


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