[thelist] skipping 'hx' levels is bad

[David McCreath]

rudy wrote:

>>[moved from elsewhere]
>>
>mccreath wrote:
>>Of course, that's a very strict interpretation...
> 
> perhaps not strict enough


I'm rarely accused of not being strict enough when giving my opinion, so 
I guess I'll take that as a compliment. ;)


> lemme ask you, does your interpretation allow P text inserted "in between"
> these heading levels, like an introductory paragraph?


Of course. You could have pages of information under an <hx> before you 
get to the point of needing one.


>    <h1>stooges</h1>
>    <p>introductory comments, a page and a half</p>
>    <h2>curly</h2>
>          <p>stuff about curly</p>
>    <h2>larry</h2>
>          <p>stuff about larry</p>
>    <h2>moe</h2>
>          <p>stuff about moe</p>
>    <p>wrapup comments</p>
> 
> since you are a markup fanatic, tell me where that last paragraph gets
> parsed in the document hierarchy


Under "moe". To HTML, there is no indication of the "outdent" that you 
illustrate for your last paragraph.


> now tell me how to fix it so that it's as "pure and semantically correct"
> as not skipping an H level


Like aard said,

<h2>wrapup</h2>
<p>comments</p>

Simple! Even in print, where structure can be demonstrated visually 
without the use of headers, you'd want to demarcate that wrapup as such.


> YOMNCM  (your opinion may never convince me)
> 
> ;o)


Yeah, you probably have issues you with Strunck & White, too, don't you? 
Troublemaker.

David