- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:39:05 -0500
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Andrew Ramsden" <andrew@irama.org>, "Andrew Sidwell" <takkaria@gmail.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q? "aur=E9lien_levy" ?= <aurelien.levy@free.fr>, public-html@w3.org
On Jul 2, 2007, at 5:58 AM, Ben Boyle wrote: > > I have a use case for this, from a while back where I found it > difficult to apply the hCard microformat to content marked up with DL > [1] > > Sample HTML: > ... > <di class="tel"> > <dt class="type">Fax</dt> > <dd class="value">#### ####</dd> > </di> > ... > > Take away the <di> and it becomes necessary to use all kinds of > redundant tags (or as I was told on the microformats wiki, "don't use > definition lists in this manner".) > ... > <dt>Fax</dt> > <dd class="tel"><span class="type">Fax</span><span class="value">#### > ####</span</dd> > ... > > That's my use case. I never said it was great :) > > [..] > > I would use it today, if it were available. I want to echo Ben's comments and reiterate that it also degrades gracefully for implementations that do not support it. Another use case for a term without a description would be a wiki list where terms were entered to be defined: all part of the same definition list. Terms may be added to the list, before someone else may add the description. This seems like a very strong use-case for the "stupidity" of a term without a description. Take care, Rob
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