[webkit-dev] Fwd: Adding <main> element to WebCore

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

I tried to analyse the use cases here:
http://blog.gingertech.net/2012/11/28/the-use-cases-for-a-main-element-in-html/

I've not seen any place where @role=main was misused and I think the same
would be the case for <main>. At least I don't see why it would be misused
any more than the other semantic elements that were introduced such as
<article>, <header> and <aside>, so I don't see why they would make sense
to be supported while <main> doesn't.

Cheers,
Silvia.


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:

> As I said on the thread you link to, I don't think this element addresses
> any real use-cases. I think people are far too likely to misuse this for it
> to be useful for things like readability to use.
>
> If Apple really wants this, I won't object, but my preference would be to
> not implement this.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this is my first post to the list.
>>
>> I have submitted a patch [1] to add  <main> element support to webkit and
>> would appreciate your consideration.
>>
>> the main element is defined here:
>> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-extensions/raw-file/tip/maincontent/index.html current
>> status unofficial draft, CFC [2] to publish as a first working draft via
>> HTML WG ends today.
>>
>> Rationale and use cases:
>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/User:Sfaulkne/main-usecases#Introduction
>>
>> details of data set and data analysis conducted during development of
>> feature:
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Oct/0109.html
>>
>> There has been discussion and feedback provided on the WHATWG list [3]
>> and IRC and at TPAC 2012 HTML WG meeting.
>>
>> I look forward to your comments!
>>
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103172
>> [2]
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Nov/thread.html#msg129
>> [3] threads start here:
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Nov/thread.html#msg55
>>
>> --
>> with regards
>>
>> Steve Faulkner
>> Technical Director - TPG
>>
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