Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-31 Thread Ian Yang
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Ian Yang wrote: > > > Like above examples, the following is not well organized, and it's >> > also a pain to read it: >> > >> > >> > Lorem Ipsum >> > Sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. >> > Aliquam Viverra >> > Fringilla >>[... etc ..

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-31 Thread Ian Yang
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Leif Halvard Silli < xn--mlform-...@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: > Ian Yang on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:04:48 +0800, wrote: > > >> From previous discussions, some people had suggested possible markup for > >> "life cycle" type contents. And personally I will stick to using

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-31 Thread Leif Halvard Silli
Ian Yang on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:04:48 +0800, wrote: >> From previous discussions, some people had suggested possible markup for >> "life cycle" type contents. And personally I will stick to using until >> there is a better solution. > > There is still one thing left unanswered. And that's whethe

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-31 Thread Leif Halvard Silli
Ian Hickson on Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:31:44 + (UTC), wrote: > It's certainly true that many element names are derived more from > historical accidents than their current semantics, but and are > semantically quite different, as the spec describes. > > Specifically, implies that the order of

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-19 Thread Sean Hogan
On 20/07/12 10:52 AM, Ian Yang wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Alex Bishop wrote: On 19/07/2012 08:04, Ian Yang wrote: Since the *optional *use of in could solve many problems, may we have being valid in? Probably not, as it has similar drawbacks as the proposed element: htt

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-19 Thread Ian Yang
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Alex Bishop wrote: > On 19/07/2012 08:04, Ian Yang wrote: > >> Since the *optional *use of in could solve many problems, may we >> >> have being valid in ? >> > > Probably not, as it has similar drawbacks as the proposed element: > > > http://wiki.whatwg.org/w

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-19 Thread Alex Bishop
On 19/07/2012 08:04, Ian Yang wrote: Since the *optional *use of in could solve many problems, may we have being valid in ? Probably not, as it has similar drawbacks as the proposed element: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#HTML_should_group_.3Cdt.3Es_and_.3Cdd.3Es_together_in_.3Cdi.3Es.21

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-19 Thread Ian Yang
>From previous discussions, some people had suggested possible markup for "life cycle" type contents. And personally I will stick to using until there is a better solution. There is still one thing left unanswered. And that's whether we will be able to put inside . Let's consider we used often

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-16 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2012-07-16 5:36, Ian Yang wrote: > > > > Imo, means the order of the items is unimportant, not browsers > > can render the items in any order. > > But if the order is unimportant, there still _is_ an order. The specification even mentions that the

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-16 Thread Ian Yang
2012/7/16 Jukka K. Korpela > 2012-07-16 5:36, Ian Yang wrote: > >> Imo, means the order of the items is unimportant, not browsers can >> render the items in any order. >> > > But if the order is unimportant, there still _is_ an order. Being > unordered would be something else. The "order" you

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-16 Thread Ian Yang
2012/7/16 Ian Hickson > On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Ian Yang wrote: > > Recently I was involved in a project. One of its pages has a special > > content which is like a "life cycle". There are several stages in the > > cycle, each stage has a term followed by some text describing the term. > > Let's tak

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-15 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-07-16 5:36, Ian Yang wrote: Imo, means the order of the items is unimportant, not browsers can render the items in any order. But if the order is unimportant, there still _is_ an order. Being unordered would be something else. And what would it matter to indicate the order as important

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Ian Yang wrote: > > Recently I was involved in a project. One of its pages has a special > content which is like a "life cycle". There are several stages in the > cycle, each stage has a term followed by some text describing the term. > Let's take the life cycle of butterfl

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-15 Thread Ian Yang
2012/7/16 Leif H Silli > Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:53:32 +0800, from Ian Yang > >> Okay, it seems that one of the ideas I mentioned in my original email >> needs to be revamped. >> > >> I was saying that using general heading () and paragraph () loses >> the meaning of "definition term" and "definition

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-15 Thread Ian Yang
2012/7/16 Jukka K. Korpela > 2012-07-15 17:40, Ian Yang wrote: > > Throughout the article, I saw it mentioned "bullets" and "numbers" > > frequently. However, that's just browsers' default rendering of and > > . > > It's the only real difference between the two. Sorry, I still don't get it. m

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-15 Thread Leif H Silli
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:53:32 +0800, from Ian Yang Okay, it seems that one of the ideas I mentioned in my original email needs to be revamped. I was saying that using general heading () and paragraph () loses the meaning of "definition term" and "definition description", but I didn't realize t

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-15 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-07-15 17:40, Ian Yang wrote: > Throughout the article, I saw it mentioned "bullets" and "numbers" > frequently. However, that's just browsers' default rendering of and > . It's the only real difference between the two. > As a coder, personally I don't care how browsers render them by > de

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-15 Thread Ian Yang
2012/7/15 Jukka K. Korpela > 2012-07-14 18:51, Ian Yang wrote: > > If is no more and no less ordered than , >> what's the purpose of its introduction? >> > > The real purposes, in the dawn of HTML, were that and correspond > to numbered and bulleted lists, respectively, reflecting two very co

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-14 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-07-14 18:51, Ian Yang wrote: If is no more and no less ordered than , what's the purpose of its introduction? The real purposes, in the dawn of HTML, were that and correspond to numbered and bulleted lists, respectively, reflecting two very common concepts in word processors. This is

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-14 Thread Ian Yang
Okay, it seems that one of the ideas I mentioned in my original email needs to be revamped. I was saying that using general heading () and paragraph () loses the meaning of "definition term" and "definition description", but I didn't realize that using loses the meaning of "definition list". That

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-14 Thread Ian Yang
2012/7/14 Jukka K. Korpela > Indeed. The element is no more and no less ordered than or any > other element. Many HTML tag names are misleading. > That's interesting. If is no more and no less ordered than , what's the purpose of its introduction? Could you provide detailed explanations or ex

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-14 Thread Ian Yang
2012/7/14 Anne van Kesteren > I would recommend not over-thinking the matter. Otherwise soon you > will start wrapping your s in /s too to ensure they stay in > the correct order. > That wouldn't be the problem. General s of an article never are list contents, so we surely won't wrap them in /s.

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-14 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2012-07-14 10:46, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> (The specification points this out as well: "The order of the list of >> groups, and of the names and values within each group, may be >> significant.") > > That's actually a questionable state

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-14 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-07-14 10:46, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Ian Yang wrote: By seeing such contents, we usually code it using definition list (). At first, I was thinking the same idea. But then I realized that stages in a life cycle should be regarded as ordered contents. I

Re: [whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-14 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Ian Yang wrote: > By seeing such contents, we usually code it using definition list (). > At first, I was thinking the same idea. But then I realized that stages in > a life cycle should be regarded as ordered contents. I would recommend not over-thinking the matt

[whatwg] Suggest making and valid in

2012-07-13 Thread Ian Yang
Hi chief editors and everyone else, How have you been? Recently I was involved in a project. One of its pages has a special content which is like a "life cycle". There are several stages in the cycle, each stage has a term followed by some text describing the term. Let's take the life cycle of bu