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From: David Ashleydale
Date: Jul 5, 2012 6:04PM

Hi,

It occurred to me today that having some content in the left column of a
page and having the main content in the middle column could come into
conflict with ensuring that heading levels appear in correct source code
order. It could lead to having H2s before the H1 in the source code, for
example.

I guess I could put the column with the main content first in source code
order and then just use styles to make it look like there's another column
of stuff on the left, but this would seem to go against having a logical
left-right Tab order.

Is this an argument against having a page layout like this?

Thanks,
David