- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:05:43 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Ernest Cline wrote: > > I though the purpose is to make things clearer, not to make existing > > confusions, contradictions, and bad practices something official. > > Then you are too late to save <dl> as using <dl> for things other > than "definition lists" has been sanctioned since HTML4 when it > explicitly mentioned marking up dialog as one use of <dl> in the > recommendation. Sorry, but if we take the internal contradictions of HTML 4 as granted, I don't see much point in the discussion. (It's a contradiction when it says what <dl> _means_ and then describes that it is _used_ for something that surely doesn't match that specification.) -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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