[thelist] skipping 'hx' levels is bad

Luther, Ron Ron.Luther at compaq.com
Thu Jan 17 17:05:04 CST 2002


Hi Rudy,

I hadn't seen it expressed quite like that before.

Sold!

RonL.
(Who liked the way using h1 and h3 "looked" ... but kept quiet cuz he
didn't have a decent argument to back it up!)

;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: rudy [mailto:r937 at interlog.com]
Subject: Re: [thelist] skipping 'hx' levels is bad

see, you guys with your rigid, hierarchical thinking, you automatically
assume that an h3 is "under" an h2, but that is *NOT* the case at all

each of the h2's in the example given -- and all the p's too, for that
matter!! -- are "under" the body, all at the same level!!

to me, it is not a hierarchy, but a question of IMPORTANCE -- the wrapup
h3
is not as important as the h2's

the w3c says

    "There are six levels of headings in HTML with H1 as
     the most important and H6 as the least. Visual browsers usually
     render more important headings in larger fonts than less important
ones.

i'm sorry, but this appeals to me a *lot* more than the rigid,
hierarchical
interpretation of the role of hx headers as demarcations of nested
content




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