Am 14.06.2011 09:32 schrieb Ian Hickson:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Markus Ernst wrote:
Instead of a new paragraph concept, there could also be a new concept
for inline (resp. Phrasing Content) lists. The concept is actually not
too new - for quotes, e.g., we've had both block level<blockquote> and
an inline level<q> elements for long. Why not the same for lists?
Consider this markup of Andy's use case:
<p>I always like to eat these cheeses:
<il>
<ili>Cheddar</ili>,
<ili>Stilton</ili>, and
<ili>Red Lester</ili>,
</il>
but I enjoy them most with one of these biscuits:
<il>
<ili>wheat crackers</ili>,
<ili>rye crackers</ili>,
<ili>digestives</ili>,
</il>
and some chutney.</p>
<il> stands for "inline list",<ili> for "inline list item" (it's a pity
we can't reuse<li> for BC reasons). Conforming UAs would be required to
ignore any content in an<il> element, except it is in an<ili> element.
Like that, the above example would be perfectly readable in legacy UAs,
but make sense in HTML5-capable UAs.
It would even be easy to stlye the output for legacy UAs supporting
display:list-item, as this example illustrates:
http://www.markusernst.ch/stuff_for_the_world/list-test.html
What problem does this solve?
It solves the first use case Jukka mentioned in his original post:
Am 10.03.2011 09:20 schrieb Jukka K. Korpela:
> The <p> element (ever since it became an element) has always allowed
> inline (text-level) content only, and no change is planned to this in
> HTML5. Under these circumstances, what should we say to people to
> need to use paragraphs that contain lists, for example?
