- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:37:35 +0200
- To: Stephen Stewart <carisenda@gmail.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Stephen added: > Some examples of chat on the web can be found at: > > http://projectcerbera.com/!dev/irc-logs/day > http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090909 > > And also http://campfirenow.com/, which I don't think I can link to > but here's a sample of the chat HTML: > > <tr class="enter_message message user_451844" id="message_157661845" > style=""> <td class="person">Stephen S.</td> <td class="body"><div>has > entered the room</div></td> </tr> <tr class="timestamp_message > message" id="message_157661956" style=""> <td class="date"><span > style="display:none">Sep 9</span></td> <td class="time"><div> 1:30 PM</ > div></td> </tr> <tr class="text_message message user_451844 you" > id="message_157661957" style=""> <td class="person"><span>Stephen S.</ > span></td> <td class="body"><div>Testing, 1,2,3. Hello W3C.</div></td> > </tr> <tr class="kick_message message user_451844" > id="message_157661989" style=""> <td class="person">Stephen S.</td> > <td class="body"><div>has left the room </div></td> </tr> > Mibbit.com similarly uses a <table> but I think one example with > <table> is enough. Bug 7808 [1] is about making <dialog> work *properly* - for chats and other kinds of dialog. (The report tries to show how the rules for where <dt> and <dd> are allowed inside <dl> as well as the rules for what they mean and how they are used inside <dl>, should apply also inside the <dialog> element. Secondly it seeks to show how the same kind of logic w.r.t.. text-level semantics [i.e. use of <dfn>, <cite> etc] should apply in both <dialog> and <dl>.) If you think that dialogs are better, more accessible and more simply marked up via other means, then that would be another bug report. I'll only say that I think it is fruitless to say that we should not have a <dialog> element if you at the same time also want to advice against using <dl> for dialog. Personally I think we could continue HTML 4's advice to use <dl> for dialogs, especially if we add an attribute which informs that it is a dialog - see bug 7509[2]. [1]http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7508 [2]http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7509 -- leif halvard silli
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