Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Robert Cummings wrote:
> 
>> Just a word of thought... if you're doing styling... use classes and not 
>> IDs. Use of IDs for styling is very often indicative of inexperience, 
>> inability, or lack of understanding with respect to CSS.
> 
> I use ID when there will only be one element that needs to be styled 
> that way. Whether it implies a lack of understanding or not, I don't 
> care about. It's not incorrect and if you are doing a fixed width layout 
> where the aside (sidebar) is positioned on the page by the style sheet 
> (allowing your content to be the very first thing in the page source), 
> you only want one element attached to it anyway.
> 
> For the wrapper divs around article and section I do use class because 
> there may be more than one article on a page (though usually not) and 
> there almost certainly are multiple sections within an article.

Many government documents have the concept of "aside" as appearing 
through the document and contextually near to the information to which 
the aside relates. The entire sidebar seems a bit gratuitous as an 
"aside". Sure it's aside, but it's not exactly the semantic meaning of 
aside.

 From the W3C Working Draft:

     "The aside element represents a section of a page that consists
      of content that is tangentially related to the content around
      the aside element, and which could be considered separate from
      that content. Such sections are often represented as sidebars
      in printed typography.

      The element can also be used for typographical effects like pull
      quotes."

      http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/semantics.html#the-aside-element

Cheers,
Rob.
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