Remove placeholder markup from <body> #926
Conversation
|
I made (a start on) a I think at any rate, an official 'body tips' article would be cool even if the placeholder markup in index.html stuff stays there. I think it'd be a good idea to have a link to an article in a comment before removing everything (as per index.html#L25). |
|
I think H5BP trying to provide tips on how to write HTML (which is basically what "body tips" ends up being) is probably beyond the scope of the project, opens a can of worms, and leads to repetition of content that is already out there. If we want to do anything, my preference would be to link to a handful of good, general source for learning about HTML in the Wiki on "Better web development". |
|
I like the sound of that. My idea wasn't geared towards telling people how to write html. I hadn't thought about that though, so I updated my 'body tips' to make sure it was only informative. I agree that's a bad thing for reasons listed as well as it could come across as one-sided/poorly justified/personal preference etc. I think my goal was two-fold. 1) Talk about a few of the cool things you can do that are otherwise considered taboo 2) Give good examples of section element usage. I put the 'common snippets' in there as well because I thought it'd be a useful reference since they are already in the body of index.html and maybe deserve some attention. But yeah. It was really a matter of pointing out "hey look, you can totally do this and it works and it's cool", not "you should do this this and this". :) Update: I've separated the contents of my page and it's largely turned into my own dubious musings. Make what you like of it if anything at all. |
|
Hm, kind of on the fence about this one. But emptying the Unfortunately, you'd lose out on best HTML5 practices like |
|
I will say I nearly always remove the markup from |
|
There should be links on why this markup is good. I almost always remove it also. |
|
I think keeping the markup as a general guideline or suggestion is harmless. It provides a nice starting point for those newer to HTML5, and for those more experienced it can be easily removed. |
I feel as though what's there is fairly arbitrary. For most of my stuff I'd always be adding IDs onto
<header>and<footer>because I preferred it to having bulldozer selectors on all header and footer els, thus #925. However. On #203 @necolas and others think it might be a good idea to empty<body>completely and let people start from scratch. I think so too. Feels more boilerplatey.