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Re: Navigation lists and headers - best practise?

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Aug 28, 2007 12:20PM

> Here we go again. It's not just semantically wrong. It's even
> syntactically wrong, since dt elements allows inline content only (not
> surprisingly, since terms are words, not blocks).

Ah, yes...good point.

That said, I do argue that DL are very semantic for menus. The
definition itself accommodates many uses outside of your generic
dictionary context of definitions.

And, at that point, while H2s might be more accessible, I'd argue that
they are less semantic. Headers are for content. Not navigation.

But, that's another debate for another time... ;o)

In the end, the issue is that current versions of HTML never considered
having semantic tags specifically for navigation (a rather huge
oversight, but, oh well...)

-Darrel