Michael A. Peters wrote: > Nathan Rixham wrote: >> Michael A. Peters wrote: >>> Robert Cummings wrote: >>> >>>> Many government documents have the concept of "aside" as appearing >>>> through the document and contextually near to the information to which >>>> the aside relates. The entire sidebar seems a bit gratuitous as an >>>> "aside". Sure it's aside, but it's not exactly the semantic meaning of >>>> aside. >>>> >>>> From the W3C Working Draft: >>>> >>>> "The aside element represents a section of a page that consists >>>> of content that is tangentially related to the content around >>>> the aside element, and which could be considered separate from >>>> that content. Such sections are often represented as sidebars >>>> in printed typography. >>>> >>>> The element can also be used for typographical effects like pull >>>> quotes." >>>> >>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/semantics.html#the-aside-element >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Rob. >>> I'm basically following this model - >>> >>> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/previewofhtml5 >>> >>> It took very little work since I was essentially doing that already. >>> aside is the most logical html 5 layout tag for describing the sidebar >>> in a two column layout. >>> >>> I suppose one could put multiple aside elements in a classic <div >>> {id,class}="sidebar"> but I don't really see the benefit. >>> >>> Since the aside used as a sidebar is neither a child of the article or >>> section, it is an aside to the main content div. >> >> no offence but I have to agree with Rob here, it seems like confusion >> between "a side" and "aside" is entering. > > http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/aside > > 1 : to or toward the side > 1 : to or toward the side <stepped aside> <aside> was originally called <sidebar>, because throughout literary pieces you'd often find an aside on the side of a page, often you still find them in news articles and the like (even online) with short, semi related content in them - to prevent confusion and people thinking it meant a literal sidebar (like we've come to think them on web pages) they changed it to <aside>. to further clarify, we're not talking about an aside as in the adverb, we're talking about the noun "aside" : http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=4282&dict=CALD&topic=remarks-and-remarking regards :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
