RE: About tests 37-41 (headers)

> But does it make sense to have an h2 followed by an h5 _within_ one 
> of these "areas"?

Though I don't think it is important, I suggested that within the areas you
might want to structure headings - but these "areas" are not well defined. 

>> With CSS positioning the
>> areas can be in any order.

> They can _appear_ (visually) in any order. But there is still a linear 
> order when reading the document linearly.

I am not being clear, again. What I called the areas could be (in some
circumstances) in any linearized (or source code) order what so ever and as
a consequence any last heading of one area could precede any area's first
heading. 

Jim
 
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Jim Thatcher wrote:
> I don't know what Ben's Navigation bar example is, but I suspect it is
> related to what I want to say. I believe that any restriction on allowed
> order of heading tags is wrong and based on an old fashioned (linear) view
> of a web page as a paper document. But web pages have many levels (areas)
of
> structure, Navigation bars, left or right navigation or advertising areas
or
> link areas, and, say, main content area(s). Different visually styled
"area
> headings" and "section headings" will/should appear in any and all of
these
> (perhaps in each area well structured). When you put these major sections
> together, there is no requirement and no predicting how the last heading
in
> one area relates to the first in another area.

But does it make sense to have an h2 followed by an h5 _within_ one of 
these "areas"?

> With CSS positioning the
> areas can be in any order.

They can _appear_ (visually) in any order. But there is still a linear 
order when reading the document linearly.

-- 
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
                             (Te Deum, 4th cent.)

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