Posted by chromatic_aberration on 02/04/06 04:13

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> When a specification is self-contradictory, (snip)

Maybe a bit fuzzy, but not self-contradictory...
Define "definition" :-)

In my example, "name" might not be a definition of *what* an "addressee"
is, but it sure is a definition of *who* this particular addressee is...

> (snip) Nobody can prevent
> you from using DL (or BLOCKQUOTE) to achieve a particular visual
> layout,

Sure not. But that's not what I would do, either!
I believe one should use CSS for visuals... The point of using a list
here (be it UL or DL) is to provide code with a clean logical structure
and as much semantic as HTML (as we know it today) allows.
In this case, lacking a specific element to meet our needs, we have to
use fallbacks, which your TABLE suggestion, indeed, is just another
example of.

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