On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:16:11 +0200, Michel Fortin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Following the discussion about the limitations of <dialog>, I meditated
about it a little and came up with the idea to generalize things a
little more.
When we have a dialog intermixed with actions and other events (like
"ABC leaves the chat room"), basically we have a sequential list of
events, actions and spoken parts. And in my later example, the Canadian
Parliament hansard, they're intermixed with timestamps at regular
intervals and other notes regarding live translations. Again, this fits
very well the concept of a list of different kinds of intermixed
sequential events.
So I propose a <sl> element (sequential list) which can be used to
replace <dialog> as well as other things. The proposal can be found here:
<http://www.michelf.com/documents/whatwg/timeline/>
I get a 404 for this URI.
Basically, <dt> and <dd> work just like they do in <dialog> currently,
except that you can have more than one <dd> following a <dt>. <li> is
used for listing events other than speech and <time> is used to insert
time marks where appropriate. And you don't need to have any spoken
part, meaning you can use it for system logs, or historical timelines
too by using only <li> and <time>.
It seems to me like a sequential list with only <li> and <time> seems very
much like <ol>, so why not use <ol> for such cases? Authors have hard
enough time to choose between the various abstract list elements already,
let's not introduce more of them. :-)
--
Simon Pieters
