On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Chris Knowles <w...@ckweb.com.au> wrote: >> a 'div' definitely has meaning, ie: it is a division of one part of >> the page, from another; whether it is used for other behaviour, >> doesn't preclude it from from its original meaning. > > but when everything is in a div, div ceases to have much meaning. It simply > says theres a bunch of things on the page that are separate to each other > without giving any clue as to what they might contain > >> Similarly, a #id was originally designated as the location within a >> page, not for CSS -> semantically it is to reference a particular >> piece of information, within the bigger piece of content, eg: a >> "section" header maybe... It just so happens that it works really >> well for CSS too. And simplifying content manipulation. And so on. > > but in the context of the question, the reason to use <header>, for > instance, vs <div id=header>, is to add meaning to the markup > >> I'm not sure why you would infer that information in section's, is any >> more important than stuff written in a div? Can you elaborate? >> ie: assistive technologies can already target div's, so using that >> argument needs.... more. > > I didn't intend to infer that, I was just trying to show how <section> is > more useful because it can be programmatically accessed in a way that <div > id=section> can't. With regard to relevance of content, I was just trying to > say that a search engine *might* choose to weight content in a given tag > more than in another, whereas if everything is in a div it's harder to do > this. A better example would have been to have said that the content in > <article> *might* be more relevant to a search engine than the content in > <aside> - compared with <div id=article> and <div id=sidebar> which would be > harder to tell apart. > > -- > Chris Knowles > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > >
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