- From: Masataka Yakura <myakura.web@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:14:02 +0900
- Cc: Jeremy Keith <jeremy@adactio.com>, Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, Smylers@stripey.com, public-html@w3.org
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: > Jeremy Keith On 09-09-15 22.42: > >> 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." > > > And what is the problem with using <dl> for that? What was so "incorrectly" > about it? This might not be what he meant, but there are reasons why <dl> is not appropriate for marking up a dialogue. [1] [1] http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-April/019471.html -- Masataka Yakura <myakura.web@gmail.com>
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