Simplifying the Markup

[ljuwaidah]

Hello,

This is a general suggestion for now, if it gets support by many people I'll get into the details, help you decide on the details, work on it full-time, or just step out and let you handle it.

The concept is simple: Have one way to do something, and ONLY one way.

For example, the <nav> tag? Just use a div with a role, or a UL with a role, maybe set some standard roles to be used in the role attribute.

That's just an example, but you get the idea.

God bless

[valkyr]

maybe set some standard roles to be used in the role attribute.

There are already standard role attribute values.

[valkyr]

Of course I'm not sure how relevant the document linked to above is to HTML5, since it's by the XHTML2 WG.

However...

The concept is simple: Have one way to do something, and ONLY one way.

I believe that's the whole idea of a richer set of elements. Instead of navigation possibly existing within...

<div id="navigation">
<div class="navigation">
<div id="nav">
<div class="nav">
<div id="main-navigation">

<nav> gives us an unified element. And since it exists as an element in its own right, specifically for the purpose of marking up navigation, it is therefore the soundest element in semantic terms to use in that situation, and the only way explicitly defined as such in the HTML5 specification. It's also simpler :

<div role=navigation>

<nav>