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Bug 26628 - change section to reflect HTML5 definition
Summary: change section to reflect HTML5 definition
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: 2014-08-21 14:23 UTC by steve faulkner
Modified: 2014-08-22 09:17 UTC (History)
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Description steve faulkner 2014-08-21 14:23:43 UTC 
In HTML5 section should be identified typically using h1-h6 elements.

Current:

section represents a generic document or application section. It can be used together with the h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6 elements to indicate the document structure.



suggested:

"The section element represents a generic section of a document or application. A section, in this context, is a thematic grouping of content. The theme of each section should be identified, typically by including a heading (h1-h6 element) as a child of the section element."

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#the-article-element
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2014-08-22 08:35:16 UTC 
I don't understand the difference. If anything I'd like to make it *shorter*. Also, the HTML5 spec's license doesn't allow me to copy-paste, does it?
Comment 2 steve faulkner 2014-08-22 08:54:52 UTC 
(In reply to Simon Pieters from comment #1)
> I don't understand the difference. If anything I'd like to make it
> *shorter*. 

difference is between 'can' and 'should' one is a normative requirement.

>Also, the HTML5 spec's license doesn't allow me to copy-paste,
> does it?

suggest you take that up with the lawyers