- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:19:06 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
Karl Dubost schreef: > Without the span here, it's impossible for an agent to extract the > definition and make a glossary. The user, for sure, could have the > choice to do what I have just done, add span in the text. But that > would be with a random definition of the class name or the way to do it. <dfn> exists for two reasons: Index generation (overview of keywords, and page number), and typographic purposes, to indicate a word is a term which is newly introduced and explained. It is one of the more useful text markup elements of HTML. Something to actually mark up the explanation of the definition would be somewhat nice, but it would be less useful and more bothersome to write, as it is difficult to determine where an explanation starts, and such an explanation can span multiple paragraphs (kinda like q vs. blockquote). Especially because it takes the text out of context, I don’t think making glossaries based on this is a good idea, nor very useful. ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san nan da!!
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