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By: Giving html 5 a Try « Functional Shmunctional

Giving html 5 a Try « Functional Shmunctional — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:15:12 +0000

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By: Zed

Zed — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:51:09 +0000

This article still reflects a previous version of the spec. Considering the spec is still a WIP would it not make sense to note clearly which revision this/each article refers to? As Colin mentions above, this article now contradicts the spec and could easily send someone off ‘down the wrong path’…

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:58:30 +0000

@Colin you’re right our article does contridict this, however it was written before the extra code examples were given in the spec (hence the confusion). However, now Hixie has more clearly defined where aside can be used we’ll update the article accordingly.

Cheers

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:52:15 +0000

Your definition of an aside seems to directly contradict what the W3C has to say:

The element can be used for typographical effects like pull quotes or sidebars, for advertising, for groups of nav elements, and for other content that is considered separate from the main content of the page. ~ W3C Aside element

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:38:10 +0000

Hi icaaq

I suspect that you and zcorpan may be correct and aside is meant to be a sidebar, however I also think this clearly shows that the spec is clear on this. My view for this site for example is that a search box, other articles, about the site etc are all related to the site but not the page (or article).

Banners are a prime example of items that are found in blog sidebars but not “tangentially” related to the content at all.

I suggest you email the WHATWG mailing list to get clarification on this.

Thanks

Rich

By: icaaq

icaaq — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:02:46 +0000

Hi, great article!

Way back in 2008 I was at James Graham and Lachlan Hunt’s @media presentaion “Getting Your Hands Dirty with HTML 5″ http://lachy.id.au/slides/hands-on-html5/

And I stand my self next in line of @zcorpan’s comment and say that aside originally was made to be a sidebar-element, just look at slide 33 of Lachlan presentation.

Has that changed, or is the spec just misinterpreted?

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