Comments on: HTML5 articles and sections: what’s the difference?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:55:14 +0000

Richard,

Yes, I think so.

By: Richard G

Richard G — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:00:20 +0000

Does each excerpt of a blog post shown in a list of blog posts count as an article? It’s not the full article, but it’s sort of self contained.

By: Ido

Ido — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:40:54 +0000

A very clear and intuitive explanation. Thanks.

However, what I really want to know is how Google interpret sections and articles.
I assume that these semantics will have a great implication on SEO. I just hope that Google understands these tags in a similar way.

By: DJBaker

DJBaker — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:20:52 +0000

Perfect, finally an article that goes into some detail about and . I was particularly happy to see within as, depending on the situation, this makes logical sense.

By: Chris Raymond

Chris Raymond — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:21:31 +0000

So I would love to hear thoughts on this…

By: Chris Raymond

Chris Raymond — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:20:56 +0000

I agree with commenter 5, about how html5 seems to be trying to shoe horn all web pages into the framework of blog posts. I just now am creating a landing page to announce the availability of a translation of a history book, along with some secondary info about the original and its author. I have no idea how to define the components of the page as “articles” or a “section(s)”, or even if that would serve any meaningful purpose other than to show I know how to make an html5 document.

There is no navigation and certainly no header, though there is a footer with copyright info in it. Maybe that should be an “aside”?

If a page does not need sections or articles, can one still make a document html5?

In short, I find this all a big head scratching puzzle for web pages that are not blog posts or journal articles.