[whatwg] [html5] r3859 - [acgiowt] (2) Parser changes: <dc>, <ds>, <dialog> are now treated differently. [...]

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Sep 16 01:12:49 PDT 2009


On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Smylers wrote:
>
> whatwg at whatwg.org writes:
> 
> > +  <p>The <span class=impl>first</span> <code><a href=#the-dt-element>dt</a></code> element child
> > +  of the element, if any, represents the caption of the
> > +  <code><a href=#the-figure-element>figure</a></code> element's contents. If there is no child
> > +  <code><a href=#the-dt-element>dt</a></code> element, then there is no caption.</p>
> >  
> > +  <p>The <span class=impl>first</span> <code><a href=#the-dd-element>dd</a></code> element child
> > +  of the element<span class=impl>, if any,</span> represents the
> > +  element's contents. <span class=impl>If there is no child
> > +  <code><a href=#the-dd-element>dd</a></code> element, then there is no caption.</span></p>
> 
> I think that last "caption" is supposed to be "content".

Fixed.


> Also, the "If there is no" for <dd> is class=impl but the equivalent one
> for <dt> isn't.

Yeah, the <dt> is optional, so that case is relevant to authors.


> While proofreading this change I also spotted an inconsistency in the
> related example undet the <dd> element:
> 
>   http://www.whatwg.org/html5#the-dd-element
> 
> I think the first class=part-of-speech should be on the <i> rather than
> the <dd> (matching the other instances).

That was intentional; the thinking was that when styling you'd want to 
know when the whole <dd> was used for the part of speech or whether the 
<dd> had a part of speech and a definition.

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