HTML5 <aside> description

[email protected] (Robert Cummings)
Newsgroups php.general
Organization InterJinn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 From the editor's 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 be used for typographical effects like pull quotes or 
sidebars, for advertising, for groups of nav elements, and for other 
content that is considered separate from the main content of the page.
"

Dear God, please don't suggest it be used for noise like sidebars, 
advertising, or non related groups of nav elements. Asides are NOT often 
represented AS sidebars in printed typography, they are often 
represented IN sidebars of printed typography. This distinction is 
fundamentally different.

I've never read a serious article where suddenly an aside is made where 
it says:

     BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY OUR JUNK TODAY!!

An aside is tangential to the content (as in the working draft of the 
spec), this means it is related in some way, usually enriching the 
information/experience rather than watering it down with nonsense.

I beg you to reconsider your wording for this element's description.

Cheers,
Rob.
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