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Bug 9378 - It is confusing that rank is defined in terms of h1-h6 elements and then later the behaviour for hgroup is tacked on. It would be clearer to define rank further down for everything all at once
Summary: It is confusing that rank is defined in terms of h1-h6 elements and then late...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-03-31 21:45 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:58 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-03-31 21:45:30 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#rank

Comment:
It is confusing that rank is defined in terms of h1-h6 elements and then later
the behaviour for hgroup is tacked on. It would be clearer to define rank
further down for everything all at once

Posted from: 109.58.63.236
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-12 05:54:32 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: If I moved the definition of "rank" down, I'd also have to move the bulk of the definition of how <hgroup> works lower down, and all that would end up happening is that everything would get moved down together into a different section. I don't think it would be any less confusing.

As it is, if you read the spec straight through, you come across the definition of rank, in the <h1> section, then use it immediately in the <hgroup> section, so it all seems to be "at once" already.