providing logical heading structure with empty sections/articles

[stevefaulkner]

currently if a section is empty it still counts as part of the outline for assigning heading level - for example on this test page http://thepaciellogroup.github.io/w3c-heading/index1.html the logical heading level 3 is assigned a level of 4 due to nesting. I suggest it would be better to only step down a level if the previous sectioning element had a heading. thoughts?

[matatk]

This seems logical -- however, does the HTML spec mandate this? I would say that, if it does, we must implement this feature, whereas if it doesn't, it seems best for us to not add any extra behaviour, even if it does seem logical (working from the principle that "if it isn't in the spec, do nothing" is more robust in the long-term).

[stevefaulkner]

No it doesn't but, it may well do i the future.