Re: PHP Manual problems

Andrew Ballard wrote:

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:

Nathan Rixham wrote:

"The most common misconception of how this element should be used is for the standard sidebar." - see: http://html5doctor.com/understanding-aside/

Unfortunatley I examined that side quite thoroughly and got smacked with a link to the W3C Editor's Draft. I stand corrected by ignorance: "The element can be used for typographical effects like pull

    quotes or sidebars, for advertising, for groups of nav elements,
    and for other content that is considered separate from the main
    content of the page."

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-aside-element Looks like the W3C watered it down to appease the worlds morons. I mean seriously... for advertising?? I have a better tag for that: <crap>

       Buy my shit now... 50% off!!!

</crap> Seriously, then screen readers would know exactly what not to read to their listeners. Of course, it wouldn't get used... someone would use <aside> instead :B Oh, well... so much for the much anticipated semantic web. I shall strive to use it correctly, as I'm sure the original author intended. <aside> I think I need a snack... all this abuse of English is making me hungry :B </aside> Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP

I agree. Of course, it isn't final yet, so perhaps there is time for comments to be heard. Andrew

I assume you can still use aside the way you want, just make it a child of the article or the section it is meant to compliment. In the case of two column layout, it is not a child of the content column but of the body node, and is an aside to the content itself.