On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:45:14 -0500, Michel Fortin wrote: > What about nested definition lists like all those found in the HTML5 > spec? Would you replace them by nested tables or a bizarre > organisation of cells using rowspan and colspan? And would it still > be intelligible?
Yes and Yes. Content and subcontent, with relations. CSS shall take care of readability quite easily (no border, for instance) > The difference between a table and a definition list is more akin the > difference between a table and a paragraph in my view. The table is > mostly about data, the definition list is mostly about text. There > are many cases where both could be used as effectively, but there are > many others where one makes much more sense than the other. I don't think one can oppose data and text (no problem for "numbers and text"). In the examples you provided, text is data. -- </david_latapie> U+0F00 http://blog.empyree.org/en (English) http://blog.empyree.org/fr (Français) http://blog.empyree.org/sl (Slovensko)