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Re: Can I make my family tree chart accessible

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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Aug 1, 2003 7:08PM


On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 08:02 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> The W3C first defines DL as a definition list, then tells various
> foolish
> things that absolutely contradic with the initial definition.

Yeah, but that's part for the course for the HTML specification. :)

> The DL
> element thus has no defined semantics, except in the sense that when
> using
> it strictly for lists of definitions, you can't be wrong - but even for
> them, normal lists or tables are often better.

Well, seems to me that what it does is define a structure with little
meaning, whereby you have term-value pair relationships. It does it in
a typically ass-backwards way, but it's not inherently awful. Just
pretty unuseful in practice.

But then, any attempt to do any sort of intelligent markup in HTML (or
XHTML) is somewhat doomed anyway -- it's not a good language for the
kinds of things you and I would really like to do.

--Kynn

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