Comments on: HTML5: The section element http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/07/10/html5-the-section-element/ Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:13:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: vdebolt http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/07/10/html5-the-section-element/comment-page-1/#comment-6126 vdebolt Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:38:07 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/?p=2850#comment-6126 Thanks, Lars. I really appreciate your input on the HTML 5 posts. Thanks, Lars. I really appreciate your input on the HTML 5 posts.

]]> By: Lars Gunther http://www.webteacher.ws/2009/07/10/html5-the-section-element/comment-page-1/#comment-6124 Lars Gunther Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:17:58 +0000 http://www.webteacher.ws/?p=2850#comment-6124 Perhaps one should add that sections make content copy/cut and pasteable in new ways. Since the level of nesting decide what level an heading is. Take a blog. On the front page you'd want every new post to be an h2 and the h1 to be for the whole blog. And every subheading for each entry to be h3. On an entry's individual page you'd like the h1 to be that entry's title, and the subheadings to be h2. Today that logic must be accomplished with server side code, which most blog-systems don't have. With HTML 5 you'd just wrap each entry on the front page in a section, and all headings are automatically demoted one level. Caveat: No browser or assistive technology support this semantc aspect of sections yet. And they probably won't for a few years. Perhaps one should add that sections make content copy/cut and pasteable in new ways. Since the level of nesting decide what level an heading is.

Take a blog. On the front page you’d want every new post to be an h2 and the h1 to be for the whole blog. And every subheading for each entry to be h3.

On an entry’s individual page you’d like the h1 to be that entry’s title, and the subheadings to be h2. Today that logic must be accomplished with server side code, which most blog-systems don’t have.

With HTML 5 you’d just wrap each entry on the front page in a section, and all headings are automatically demoted one level.

Caveat: No browser or assistive technology support this semantc aspect of sections yet. And they probably won’t for a few years.

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