Re: [PHP] PHP Manual problems

Nathan Rixham wrote:
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> Robert Cummings wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>> I'm basically following this model -
>>
>> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/previewofhtml5
>>
>> It took very little work since I was essentially doing that already.
>> aside is the most logical html 5 layout tag for describing the sidebar
>> in a two column layout.
>>
>> I suppose one could put multiple aside elements in a classic <div
>> {id,class}="sidebar"> but I don't really see the benefit.
>>
>> Since the aside used as a sidebar is neither a child of the article or
>> section, it is an aside to the main content div.
> 
> no offence but I have to agree with Rob here, it seems like confusion
> between "a side" and "aside" is entering.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/aside

1 : to or toward the side