[Wsuug] Updated/new site
Andrew Jaswa
ajaswa at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 18:31:34 EST 2008
Jason you win the prize! Yay! (this gives you a reason to come to the
next meeting ;)
I would also accepted the use of abbr in there. Since the W3C has
really confusing wording about those two elements. If I remember there
is better support for the abbr element with screen readers (the
Microformats folks did a lot of research on this for accessibility
problems). But the point is that the h1 and h2 elements do not relate
to each other. Simply put you have a string of characters in one and a
few words in the other. Since we can see and are not a computer we can
easily make out that "WSUUG" stands for "Web Standards and Usability
User Group". With the acronym and abbr elements you can give context
and meaning to text they therefore make it more semantic.
I would end up doing something like this:
<div id="Header">
<h1><abbr title="Web Standards and Usability Users Group">WSUUG</
abbr></h1>
<h2>Web Standards and Usability User Group</h2>
</div>
For those of you that had heard me speak about what I call the major
sections of a website you'll know why that div is there. For those
that haven't here's the short version:
Just about every* website can be broken into 4 major sections.
1 Header
2 Navigation
3 Body/Content
4 Footer
This gives you 4 sections or divisions ;) from there you can take a
sections and start to give your document structure. From the W3C: "The
DIV and SPAN elements, in conjunction with the id and class
attributes, offer a generic mechanism for adding structure to
documents." (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-DIV)
*In my experience this has been the case. Some sections are nested in
others and there can be as many sub-sections as needed.
We should all go read up on html5 since they are building this sort of
structure into the markup. (the draft was published on the 22nd)
On a side note I should be posting about the next meeting tomorrow
once I get some more information. So get excited!
Andrew
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