[thelist] semantics: h1 for titlebar?

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 1 15:47:57 CDT 2006


> Thought I'd run this by you. So what are peoples feelings on how to
> mark up an application titlebar. This is the application name. In one
> sense it is the primary heading for a screen, but its also very
> redundant. The real primary header is the header that describes what a
> particular screen does: e.g. Search Results.
>
> Is it even a header at all?

H1 should be the main heading of the current document, not the
application or the site. This is the same discussion that happened
here a lot about marking up the company logo inside an H1 or not.

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