Re: what is dt? from Shelley Powers on 2009-09-15 (public-html@w3.org from September 2009)

From: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:53:44 -0500
To: Jeremy Keith <jeremy@adactio.com>
CC: Stephen Stewart <carisenda@gmail.com>, Smylers@stripey.com, public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <4AB01AF8.1030809@burningbird.net>

Smylers wrote this in another email:

"As defined by HTML5, a user agent can treat the contents of a <cite>
element as being the title of a work; if <cite> is expanded to do two
distinct things (both titles of works and conversation speakers) then
<cite> effectively becomes a semantically empty element two: a user
agent can't know which of the two meanings is intended, so can't presume
either of them."

Then where does this leave dt and dd?

Shelley

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