- From: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:53:33 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, MegaZone wrote: > Does anyone have an example of how DFN is used in a document? My "Learning HTML 3.2 by Examples" has just a simple example of that: <DFN>Ichthyology</DFN> is the branch of natural science which studies fish. And I suppose the most natural use of DFN would be when definitions are presented that way within the flow of text, not as separate definitions (in which case DL might look more adequate even if there is just one definition). But as I explain in my http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/HTML4.0/comments.html the DFN element is not so great structurally, in addition to being rarely used in practice. It seems a strange to me indicate what is a defining occurrence without indicating what part of the document constitutes the definition. So I propose using DT and DD for definitions, and for this purpose HTML specs should be elaborated to allow them outside DL, too. Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/
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