Re: [PHP] HTML5 <aside> description

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> If <aside> is not proper to use for this purpose, what would be?
> 
> <sidebar> suggests a particular type of layout.
> <section> suggests content.
> <nav> is appropriate for some items in a side bar, but not all, and is 
> often a child of how <aside> is being used.
> <div> give no semantics.
> 
> I would like to see a <toc> tag for nav that serves as a table of 
> contents of sorts (what I often have at the top of a side bar) but I 
> suspect <nav> is considered sufficient.
> 
> Maybe <sidebar> would be best, and the reference to column type layout 
> can just be understood that isn't necessarily on the side?
> 
> Reading up on it, I saw some suggest <figure> for what some of you want 
> <aside> used for, but a <figure> is often important content and has its 
> own meaning so that's not exactly appropriate.

I would lean towards <div> if there is no appropriate semantic tag to 
markup the information. But in the case of ads, there really should be a 
n <ad> tag :)

The problem though with semantic tags like <ad> is that it wouldn't be 
used in practice by most commercial sites, because then the browser 
would know exactly what to rip out (or at least plugins like adblock) *lol*.

Cheers,
Rob.
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