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Re: [Bug 7509] Consider <dl type="dialog"> instead of <dialog>

From: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:18:16 +0200
Message-ID: <e2c275120909100118j70eb091eu6edebe5e0714a70a@mail.gmail.com>
To: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org> 
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote:
> This is quite different to a definition list. "Toby Inkster" isn't the
> definition of "Name"; if anything it's the other way around: "Name" is the
> definition of "Toby Inkster". <dl> lists like this seem to be pretty common.

I uses <dfn> for such structures : <li><dfn>Name:</dfn> Toby
Inkster</li>, perhaps that <dl> should not be used at all for this...

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