Re: PHP Manual problems

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.

He doesn't mark it with an ID. But then one could argue the header and footer are also "tangentially" related to the main content. This strike me as semantic watering down. And I can see he's trying to start a trend:

    "The aside element is for content that is tangentially
     related to the content around it, and is typically useful
     for marking up sidebars."

WTF, "typically". HTML5 isn't typical of anything yet. The page name is even "previewofhtml5". Oh well, some clowns just like to apply new paint to the same old tired routine. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP