On 3 Aug 2009, at 11:52, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Ryan Roberts wrote:
It would not be appropriate to break out into a block level list
surrounded by two separate paragraphs. Using CSS is also out of the
question because I would then have to embed the list element within
the
paragraph. I suppose I could use the b element to set the list text
off
from the surrounding text but this doesn't convey the correct
semantic
information.
What is the "correct semantic information" to be used for in this
case?
That it is a list (ordered or unordered), but within another element.
Has a solution for this ever been considered in HTML? If it has been
considered is there anything I can read covering why it wasn't
accepted?
We did originally have <ol> allowed in <p>, but it turns out to be a
can
of worms with a number of complications. The most important problems
were
that it makes editors harder to write, it is incompatible with
legacy HTML
parsing rules, and it makes the content models really complicated.
Ah ok I wasn't aware it had already been suggested, and yes I can
imagine it being complicated especially with backward compatibility.
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Seth Call wrote:
The HTML5 spec has a semi-solution, in that it is suggested that when
you omit the p tags, there are in effect 'implicit paragraphs'.
Check
out the last example of this section,
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/dom.html#paragraph, (the one about 'My
Cats'). While that example is a clever way of thinking of the data,
ultimately I don't think this is a workable solution, because it is
impossible to know for sure that the text on either side of the block
element is actually related.
It's not really intended to be a solution, that's just something
that I
had to define because otherwise there's no clear definition of what
that
text actually is.
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