- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:54:30 +0100
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 17/09/2013 14:46, Reinier Kaper wrote: > I'd say the code should reflect what it "means". If you "mean" the > breadcrumbs show the path in the structural tree of a website, then yes, > use nested ol's. Why? A path in a structural tree is linear, so I'm personally happy with seeing it as an ordered set of steps in a flat, rather than hierarchical, sequence. > A breadcrumb per definition can't be like a recipe. Where is this absolute definition you mention? This is the beauty of deep "semantics" discussions...there is no one true definition of many things. Authors will mark up content based on their own view/idioms/internalisations of what a piece of content is. > Although there's some similarity between the two, a recipe is a series > of steps in a process Can't a breadcrumb trail be a series of steps in a process of getting from the homepage to the current page? > Sorry for my rant, but it feels like 1994 all over again when the > argument is made that most people don't use it right now and therefore > shouldn't be in the spec. That's reversed thinking, let's go for the > best possible result ;-) That was not actually my argument. I don't care what's most used in the wild (though that's certainly a piece of info that needs to be taken into consideration)...but I do care about over-semanticising something for the sake of abstract purity when there is no tangible benefit. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com | http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ ______________________________________________________________ twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke ______________________________________________________________
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