- From: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:34:17 +0000
- To: "W3C HTML" <www-html@w3.org>
Well, can you please shed some light on some XHTML 2.0 issues (though they're rather questions which concern former HTML versions): - For non-native English speakers, it's sometimes difficult to understand the difference between <cite /> and <quote />, since citations often seem to be quoted, too (this is a presentational aspect, I know). I must admit, what exactly is the semantic difference? I always perceived the <quote /> and <blockquote /> elements as a more general approach to represent citations, too. (Also, there is <quote /> and <blockquote />, <code> and <blockcode />, but only <cite /> -- and not <blockcite />. This is something which is irritating, too, and which rather supports the confusion mentioned above.) - Is it right that the <dfn /> element [1] /must/ be used only in the context of the definition of the enclosed term (as the example suggests)? (If so, wouldn't it be useful to add this note, too?) - Last, ain't it still kind of misleading that the definition list [2] is called like this, though it rather seems like a kind of 'assigment' or 'attribution list'? (I always wondered about this a bit.) And does any dialogue (as it's suggested by the second <dl /> example) really comply with a 'definition', ain't that really and rather anything like an 'assigment' (speaker 1 - text, speaker 2 - text, and so on)? Thank you letting me dig out these questions ;) Jens. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-text.html#sec_9.4. [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-list.html#sec_11.1. -- Jens Meiert Interface Architect (IxD) http://meiert.com/
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