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Bug 20761 - I personally don't feel that the aside element should be used for advertisement purposes. Many times advertisements have nothing to do with the page you are viewing. Google's Adsense bases its adverti [...]
Summary: I personally don't feel that the aside element should be used for advertiseme...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-01-24 17:24 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-03-19 23:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-01-24 17:24:43 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-aside-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-aside-element

Comment:
I personally don't feel that the aside element should be used for
advertisement purposes. Many times advertisements have nothing to do with the
page you are viewing. Google's Adsense bases its advertisement on past history
of the user, not just the page being currently viewed. A normal div element
should suffice in holding an advertisement/group of advertisements..

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-03-19 23:50:23 UTC 
Well <div> is semantically neutral, it would mean the same as not using a wrapper at all. Which is allowed as well.

Ads are always tangentially related, in the sense that they're what pays the bills for providing the content.