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Posted by David Dorward on 08/13/05 18:18
Andy Dingley wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:09:54 +0100, David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>> Why? It isn't - it still has valid functions that Strict can't do.
>>I can only think of one
> The most obvious one would be <a target="..." ...>
That's a job for JavaScript (and generally considered harmful anyway), not
HTML.
>>So why not use them in strict order?
>
> It's often difficult - especially with dynamically generated code - to
> know what level the current header is. I was working on a network
> browser app (some more AJAX) recently which displayed a lot of nested
> hierarchical "friend of a friend" information, with headers marked up
> through <div class="foo">. Click on one of these and you navigated to
> that node, with the previously "higher" levels now as subordinates.
> Where's <h3> in that lot ? It's entirely dynamic.
It sounds it might be a call for nested lists rather then headings, but
still, the level of heading can be calculated programmatically, even if it
does take a little more work.
> A posted "Question" is a request for information, not an invitation to
> display your knowledge of typography and the letter Q.
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