It seems to me that headings (<h1>, et al.) should 'cover' all the text
beneath them, until the next heading, or until something indicates that
the coverage (scope) of the heading has ended. (HTML has no mechanism for
the latter.) Moreover, that's how (e.g.) Google uses them.[1] So it
seems to me one of the following should be true (none of them *is* true
(unless maybe number (3) is -- does anyone know for certain?)):
(1) There is a mechanism for ending the scope of a heading,
(2) Authors should put a new heading above the footer (e.g.,
<address>-type info) of their pages to prevent that info from being
counted as part of the previous header's scope.
(3) Authors should be allowed to use <Hn/> as a means of specifying that
the previous <Hn>'s scope has ended, and (e.g.) Google should understand
the page that way.
Thoughts?
Footnote:
[1] I have a small phonograhic-copyright symbol as a GIF in the footer of
one of my pages -- http://www.math.wustl.edu/~msh210/recoring.html -- and
Google Image Search, when it shows that image in a results list -- as in
http://google.com/images?q=msh210 -- shows the content of the <h1> above
it as the description of the image. (Why it doesn't show the alt text, I
don't know.)
Michael Hamm It's not who you know, it's whom.
AM, Math, Wash. U. St. Louis Joan Rivers
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