Am 10.03.2011 19:18 schrieb Jukka K. Korpela:
Markus Ernst wrote:
Would it cause serious issues to add the Phrasing Content category to
these three elements [ol, ul, dl] thus allowing them inside the p
element?
I'm afraid it would, and I think that's the reason why the content model
hasn't been extended in HTML5.
[...]
Introducing a new paragraph concept, say <par> element, would not have
this problem, but it would have problems of its own. And the good old
<p> element might feel rather lonely and rejected - and oddly named.
I know it is late in the HTML5 process to propose new elements, but
please consider this:
Instead of a new paragraph concept, there could also be a new concept
for inline (resp. Phrasing Content) lists. The concept is actually not
too new - for quotes, e.g., we've had both block level <blockquote> and
an inline level <q> elements for long. Why not the same for lists?
Consider this markup of Andy's use case:
<p>I always like to eat these cheeses:
<il>
<ili>Cheddar</ili>,
<ili>Stilton</ili>, and
<ili>Red Lester</ili>,
</il>
but I enjoy them most with one of these biscuits:
<il>
<ili>wheat crackers</ili>,
<ili>rye crackers</ili>,
<ili>digestives</ili>,
</il>
and some chutney.</p>
<il> stands for "inline list", <ili> for "inline list item" (it's a pity
we can't reuse <li> for BC reasons). Conforming UAs would be required to
ignore any content in an <il> element, except it is in an <ili> element.
Like that, the above example would be perfectly readable in legacy UAs,
but make sense in HTML5-capable UAs.
It would even be easy to stlye the output for legacy UAs supporting
display:list-item, as this example illustrates:
http://www.markusernst.ch/stuff_for_the_world/list-test.html
I tested this example in FF 3.6, IE 8, Opera 11 and Chrome 9. The
unstyled block degrades nicely in all 4 browsers, the styled one is
rendered as expected except in IE 8, where it also degrades nicely.
I'd be happy to read any thoughts on this.
