Thanks for the article.

Just two things.

An aside is for secondary content related to an article, or the main topic on the page for example. Using a printed media example to illustrate the real purpose of an aside, if you read a book which had snippets of secondary or extra information contained in a little box and it’s related to, but separate from the main content on the page or chapter, then that’s an aside. That is the kind of thing the standards documentation is referring to as an example. So if I write an article, and I have little snippets of extra information related to the article topic then I’d use an aside tag for that.

I personally wouldn’t use the header tag for traditional masthead stuff. It’s really for articles or the main content. Even in sidebars, I’d use the header tag within sections. For me, the logo area is the masthead and the header is the title and related information at the start of an article or page content area.

I’m just a bit tired of seeing these two tags being misused because someone misunderstood the real purpose of these tags, or they decided to bend the spec to suit them.