On 10/24/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
morten fjellman wrote:
> Hi list,
> I'm marking up a chat board, and I'm wondering how I should tag the actual
> message? The message would typically be:
> NickName says:
> Ain't this cool?
>
> I was thinking a DL, like this:
>
> <dl>
> <dt>NickName says:</dt>
> <dd>Ain't this cool?</dd>
> </dl>
Using dl for marking up dialogue is generally frowned upon because dl is
widely considered to be for marking up definitions. Tantek has provided
a more semantic example of in a old presentation of his.
See "XHTML Compound: Conversation".
http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/elementsofxhtml/#slide22
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