- From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:13:18 +0000
- To: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>
> Brucel wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:56:10 -0000, Steve Faulkner > <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Lists are appropriate for indicating nested tree structures. The use > > of lists to markup comments is a common mark up pattern used in > > blogging software such as wordpress. The code verbosity is not > > dissimilar to the use of article, less so even option end </li> tags > > are omitted. Besides comments are generated code not hand authored so > > I don't see a problem with code verbosity > > [...] > > > > >> (It makes some sense, I suppose, to think of comments as a "list", but > >> *unordered*? If you're going to group them at all, wouldn't the order > >> be important? Bruce Lawson ( > >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Jan/0111.html)'s > >> observation that comments are "heavily dependent on context" would seem > >> to support the idea that it *is* important, especially since some > >> comments are responses to others.) > > > > agreed it would be better to use order lists. > > > > Wordpress blogs, for example, have comments like > > "Bob Smith said at <a href="#permalink">9.55 on 31 Febtember</a>: LOL" > > Thus, every comment has a link that a UA can use to jump from comment to > comment. The order is implied via the timestamp. So what's wrong with > > <article> > <h1>Witty blogpost</h1> > <p>lorem ipsum > > <section> > <h2>35 erudite and well-reasoned comments</h2> > <div>Bob Smith said at <a href="#permalink1">9.55 on 31 Febtember</a>: Can > I use DRM in Polyglot documents?</div> > <div>Hixie said at <a href="#permalink2">9.57 on 1 June</a>: What's your > use case?</div> > ... > </section> > > </article> > > In short, why should the spec suggest any specific method of marking up > comments? Good question, in the case of <article> recommended tomarkup comments it seems like it's an element in search of a use case. For users who consume article semantics it appear to cause issues when used for any piece of content ranging from a one sentence comment to an article containing thousands of words or an interactive widget. regards SteveF
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