619531 - Replace <article> tag on new submission pages with semantically applicable tag

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Input :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

As davedash points out, the sections on the new submission pages are <article>s, which is semantically questionable. <article> is for "content from an external source".

Unfortunately, we already have a <section> inside this article, so just changing it to section might not be the way to go.

Chowse, can you suggest a change? (WONTFIXing this is also an option).

Comment 1

[Chris Howse [:chowse]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> As davedash points out, the sections on the new submission pages are
> <article>s, which is semantically questionable. <article> is for "content from
> an external source".

I'm going to argue against this (and not sheerly out of laziness ;).

According to the HTML5 spec:

"The article element represents a self-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site and that is, in principle, independently distributable or reusable, e.g. in syndication. This could be a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, a blog entry, a user-submitted comment, an interactive widget or gadget, or any other independent item of content." (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/sections.html#the-article-element)

I believe the individual 'forms' of the feedback page fit this criteria of 'self-contained' content: they can exist and be understood even removed from the surrounding context. This is especially evident in the case of the Beta Feedback pages: each is accessed directly from the Feedback page, not by way of a 'landing' page.

If you feel a change to <section> elements is still necessary, you can address this by changing any reference to "article" in the CSS to "body > section", or by adding a unique class to the articles-turned-sections and referencing them by the appropriate class selector.

Comment 2

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Point taken.