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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/sections.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-footer-element Comment: Maybe tweak wording on <footer> Posted from: 85.227.154.141 by simonp@opera.com User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01
See http://html5doctor.com/html5-simplequiz-6-zeldmans-fat-footer/ (please ignore the <figure> discussion for this bug) A few years ago, the content model of <footer> was changed specifically to allow usage of <footer> for "fat footers". However, some comments still don't choose <footer> based on their reading of the spec. Maybe the spec needs to make it clearer in the definition of <footer> that the element is appropriate for "fat footers".
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r6090. Check-in comment: Work on making it clearer that 'footer' is fine for 'fat footers'. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6089&to=6090
mass-move component to LC1