On 4/10/07, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kevin Marks wrote:
> I think the <dialog> example is a retrograde step. The
> <ol><li><cite><q|blockquote> pattern seems much better than redefining
> <dt> and <dd>, which will confuse XOXO parsers that try to be
> Postelian. Did I miss some reasoning here?
Fictional dialogs don't involve the excerpt and citation of external
sources, which is what q/blockquote and cite are properly for. Given the
HTML4 spec's own use of dt and dd, it's far from clear that any
redefinition is involved. That isn't to suggest that dt and dd are
optimal however.
My point is that this is breaking the expected containment of <dt><dd>
in a <dl>- if you want a new structure purely for dialog, define
<speaker> and keep <q>. I really fail to see why redefining a
definition list as speech is less 'proper' than expanding the context
of <q> slightly.
