- From: Jeremy Keith <jeremy@adactio.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:42:24 +0100
- To: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>
- Cc: Smylers@stripey.com, public-html@w3.org
Shelley asked: > For the past ten years or so, dl, dt, and dd have been defined > within the context of a definition list. People may have used them > for other things, but no where has there been even a hint that such > use was "acceptable" or appropriate. The HTML 4 spec gives more than a hint, advising authors (incorrectly) to use dl, dt and dd for dialogues. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#edef-DL "Another application of DL, for example, is for marking up dialogues, with each DT naming a speaker, and each DD containing his or her words." > But we dropped dialog in favor of paragraph elements, and using bold > <b> for the person ....(!?) I concur completely with both your exclamation point and your question mark. It's nutty advice that will be ignored by authors. > And we've managed to find two new, completely different uses of dt > and dd. Less than ideal, I agree, but far, far better than using <legend>. Using <dt> is the lesser of 18 evils. -- Jeremy Keith a d a c t i o http://adactio.com/
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