<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Ernest Cline <<a href="mailto:ernestcline@mindspring.com">ernestcline@mindspring.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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-----Original Message-----<br>
>From: Mike Wilson <<a href="mailto:mikewse@hotmail.com">mikewse@hotmail.com</a>><br>
>Sent: May 15, 2008 8:02 AM<br>
>To: 'WHATWG' <<a href="mailto:whatwg@whatwg.org">whatwg@whatwg.org</a>><br>
>Subject: Re: [whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5 - dialog<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">>Yes, I also quite like the analogy with dl/ul/ol. But it may<br>
>be confusing when using dt and dd as child elements (as in<br>
>the current spec for dialog):<br>
> <cl><br>
> <dt><br>
> <dd><br>
> ...<br>
> </cl><br>
><br>
>That could be resolved by introducing elements ct and cd:<br>
> <cl><br>
> <ct><br>
> <cd><br>
> ...<br>
> </cl><br>
><br>
>and that I guess can be regarded as making things better OR<br>
>worse depending on your focus...<br>
><br>
>Best regards<br>
>Mike Wilson<br>
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</div>Because of the backwards compatibility using <dt> and <dd> with a new dialog element would have with most existing UA's, I'd be leery of changing the names unless additional types of child elements for <dialog/> (by whatever name it gets) were added, such as an element to markup stage directions, audience response, or the like. Then, since we'd be introducing enough new stuff to break compatibility anyway:<br>
<br>
<dialog/><br>
<speaker/> (what <dt/> currently is)<br>
<speech/> (what <dd/> currently is)<br>
<fx/> (a new element for stage effects, audience response etc.)</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, I'm backing off of that position... I'm back to liking plain <dialog> or <talk>. Either sounds great to me.<br>
<br>~TJ<br></div></div><br>