Yeah, good point Lea. From your link: "Another application of DL, for example, is for marking up dialogues, with each DT naming a speaker, and each DD containing his or her words."
That makes (meaningful) sense - the definition term being the speaker and the description being what the speaker said - and seems much more inline with the structure/meaning that a definition list implies. It also provides the extra meaning within the markup itself - identifying the speaker for each item. I'd thought people were talking about using dt/dd to separate the question from the answer (which is quite different, yet seems to be how it is often used). Thanks for the correction Lea! -Michael On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 16:12, Lea de Groot wrote: > On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:53:46 +1000, Michael Nelson wrote: > > I mean, a definition list is really for definitions > > No, I don't agree. > The W3C docs site two example uses: > - a standard term and definition usage, and > - marking up dialogues. > see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#h-10.3 ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
