On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Ian Yang wrote: > > I saw the SitePoint article "Introducing the New HTML5 <main> > Element<http://www.sitepoint.com/html5-main-element/>" yesterday. Does > that mean <main> element has been approved by all editors of the working > group?
<main> is currently in the HTML standard. That doesn't mean much, though. What means something is that <main> is now implemented by two browsers in their development builds. Once they ship in final versions, that's the point at which we know that the feature is part of the platform. > However, in spec, it still says that <main> element is not a sectioning > element. Correct. Broadly speaking, sectioning elements are those with headings; <main> doesn't typically have a heading, it contains the content after the heading, distinguishing it from the content that is "merely" heading and navigation and so forth. > That means, in document outline, main content will form another > tree structure instead of appearing under the original website tree > structure. I'm not sure what you mean here. The main content doesn't appear in the outline; the outline only contains the headers, essentially. > Can we have somebody advise on this? Is there a special consideration to > not making <main> a sectioning element? There's already corresponding sectioning elements to indicate something that is "main" content -- <article> or <section>, depending on what exactly the content is. The spec goes into some detail about this, including with examples, here: http://whatwg.org/html#the-main-part-of-the-content http://whatwg.org/html#the-main-element http://whatwg.org/html#usage-summary-0 http://whatwg.org/html#sample-outlines -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
