[thelist] Hn tags
GregHolmes at aol.com
GregHolmes at aol.com
Thu Jun 27 12:15:05 CDT 2002
[This bounced earlier, I assume due to the server weirdness]
Joel Canfield wrote;
>> >We sometimes have to use an <h3> after an <h1> without an
>> intervening
>> ><h2> because that's what the task at hand calls for.
>>
>> When does the task at hand call for that? I can't think of
>> any examples.
>
>rudy's example, early in this thread:
>
>http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20020617/116075.html
I guess I should have been more explicit - I remember this example
but don't agree that it is a case requiring out-of-order headings.
Probably just my shot in the religious war, but why not (fake tags
for brain-dead mail clients, like mine):
H1: The Three Stooges
p: Actually there were six, blah ...
H2: The Greatest Comedians in History!
p: blah, yadda ...
H2: Meet the Stooges
H3: Larry
p: blah, yadda ...
H3: Curly
p: blah, yadda ...
H3: Moe
p: blah, yadda ...
If desired, the "Meet the Stooges" heading could always be
display: none, made to look like a marginal label, or
given some other "un-heading-like" style. Why bother with
using a heading, only to make it look "un-heading-like"?
Because if the document is rendered by a client that doesn't
provide the visual clues, but instead uses default rendering
of headings, it still makes sense. I don't see why this case
requires, or even naturally leads to, mis-ordered headings.
Sure, not a big deal, but I've just never encountered
documents where the headings can't order "properly".
Not "nest", but order. Anyhow, just one of those little
things I find fascinating (I must be demented).
Thanks,
-Greg Holmes
gregholmes at aol.com
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