[Wsuug] Updated/new site

[Zach Young]

Yea, I think we agreed wsuug was an acronym, though, W3C is
exceedingly confusing on the topic. I remember having long drawn out
candlelight debates with Andy over the topic.

Not to throw more dissent into the discussion, but I usually prefer to
use 'content' as the name for section #3 otherwise people get confused
and think the body tag, and then I have to beat them up.

zpy

On Jan 27, 2008 6:31 PM, Andrew Jaswa <ajaswa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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