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- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:10:05 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13959 Summary: I think the change to dfn being the defining instance of a term removes one previously solid use case for dfn: defining unfamiliar terms that may make no sense to define in context. For instance, use of "borrowed" terms and phrases from other languages th Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the -dfn-element OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-dfn-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-dfn-element Comment: I think the change to dfn being the defining instance of a term removes one previously solid use case for dfn: defining unfamiliar terms that may make no sense to define in context. For instance, use of "borrowed" terms and phrases from other languages that may be unfamiliar to the reader. In that case, a simple dfn element with lang attribute and title to define the term or phrase seems proper. Without that use available, there becomes a hole in HTML's semantics that was previously plugged and there are no other elements that make sense to replace dfn in that instance. Posted from: 74.221.190.5 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.215 Safari/535.1 -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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