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Bug 17774 - "For the purposes of document summaries, outlines, and the like," should be treated as a UI issue, and should not be restricted in what text to use. It is e.g. resonable to join the headings with ": " if the hgroup is used for heading+subheading.
Summary: "For the purposes of document summaries, outlines, and the like," should be t...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-13 18:41 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-14 05:08 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-13 18:41:40 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 14707 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2011-11-06 09:26:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2011-11-06 09:26:17 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-hgroup-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-hgroup-element

Comment:
"For the purposes of document summaries, outlines, and the like," should be
treated as a UI issue, and should not be restricted in what text to use. It is
e.g. resonable to join the headings with ": " if the hgroup is used for
heading+subheading.

Posted from: 85.227.157.105 by simonp@opera.com
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.21 Safari/535.7
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 #1   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2011-11-11 00:20:51 +0000 
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That seems reasonable. Do you think we should remove the paragraph entirely, or do you think there is value in some weaker wording as implementation advice? If the latter, what do you think it should say?
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 #2   Simon Pieters                                   2011-11-11 07:18:30 +0000 
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Either is fine with me.
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 #3   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2011-12-07 23:19:42 +0000 
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I'll nuke the paragraph and make sure there's an example somewhere that gives sample behaviour.
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Comment 1 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-09-14 05:08:40 UTC 
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   Status: Accepted
   Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/45eaa5dd791e40812c51d1e809e92e5af5d24f5b
   Rationale: accepted WHATWG fix