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Re: Navigation lists and headers - best practise?

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Aug 28, 2007 2:10PM

> > To argue for the use of a "definition list" as being for anything
> > *other* than for a list of terms and definitions is without
> a doubt a
> > use of the definition list for a purpose it was not intended
> to
> > serve.
>
> There is no semantic tag for navigation labels. As such,
> whether one uses a header or a dl would be easily argued the
> same in terms of semantics or lack thereof.
>
> Given the rather rudimentary set of tags we have to work
> with, we make do.

You could always write your own DTD. Then you can have any element you want!
;-)


>
> I think I could argue either case in terms of which would be
> more semantic in this case. It's just that at the moment, I
> like the DL format.

Taking this discussion purely as one of "Navigation Lists", I find that
using a header which precedes a list (unordered, IMO, but ordered could be
argued) is the most appropriate. What is navigation, after all, but a list
of links?

Its sad, IMO, that the LH element never survived into a published
recommendation, dying on the vine of HTML 3.0, IIRC.


Karl