I'm sure a lot of web folk are going to say "wow you're late to the party" but the fact that the <h1> tag's text size shrinks for every <article> or <section> it's inside of, but the other tags (like <h2>) do not.
That is a *BONKERS* decision and it's apparently intentional
@irina from the look of the standard it looks like it only calls out H1, I wonder if that was supposed to be an example and people took it literally?
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/rendering.html#sections-and-headings
it would definitely make *more* sense if they were to all shrink (or none shrink) though 😀
@JoshJers i can't find the name of it so i can't find it, but i think the plan was they'd all do that, so they implemented it for h1, but nobody cared so they never did any more? something about using the article and section tags instead of the different H levels
someone will know the name of the thing I'm thinking of, but googling keywords has led me to nothing
Yeah pretty much
standards folks thought there needed to be an outline algorithm to determine the tree structure of headings that are out of order, and browser developers, accessibility experts, and screen reader devs all said they don't plan on implementing it https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25003
But the spec also included sample CSS that does this resizing and that part did make it into browsers somehow https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/7867
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