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Bug 26616 - main element description
Summary: main element description
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 differences from HTML4 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Simon Pieters
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2014-08-20 17:25 UTC by steve faulkner
Modified: 2014-08-29 14:22 UTC (History)
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Description steve faulkner 2014-08-20 17:25:46 UTC 
The main element description does not correspond to its definition in HTML5

current:
"main can be used as a container for the dominant contents of another element, such as the main content of the page."

suggested:
"The main element represents the main content of the body of a document or application."
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-main-element
Comment 2 alexander surkov 2014-08-29 14:16:59 UTC 
I'm curious about original wording, was it driven by some use case?
Comment 3 steve faulkner 2014-08-29 14:22:28 UTC 
(In reply to alexander surkov from comment #2)
> I'm curious about original wording, was it driven by some use case?

the original wording corresponded to the whatwg definition, as this is version of the doc is about differences between html 4 and w3c html5 it has been modified to reflect the HTML5 definition