On 5 Oct 2006, at 12:16, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As far as I can see, DL's are not deprecated, but they probably should >be, as the vast majority of use cases are semantically incorrect. The >one you describe included; surely a vCard or other microformat is more >appropriate - the _definition_ of a particular company is a difficult >concept to define, but I'm fairly sure its not their contact details! The fact that people abuse a markup component isn't a reason to deprecate it. Tables are without doubt the most-abused markup component going, yet nobody in their right mind would want future versions of (X)HTML to deprecate them, as they are essential for their intended purpose. I agree completely that definition lists should under no circumstances be used for the purpose described. If anything, such information would actually make more sense in a table... if it was marked up correctly of course, including microformats :-) Given that the post to which you were responding spoke of <dl>s "work[ing] well for displaying business listings from a database", the fact that database records are held in tables might have given a clue as to how they could best be marked up. Next week, how to do a calendar using unordered lists ;-) Regards, Nick. P.S. Sorry if the formatting of the quote comes out strange, I'm not sure how this webmail system works, and my client's firewall won't let me get mail out any other way. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
