[html5] dialog
Peter Borbely
pborbely at fairfaxdigital.com.au
Thu Nov 27 13:55:44 PST 2008
as an outsider following the discussions <dialog> feels the most intuitive, it also translates quite well to a number of languages: http://translate.reference.com/browse/dialog
~bp
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From: help-bounces at lists.whatwg.org [mailto:help-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Luis-Miguel Rodríguez Rojas
Sent: Friday, 28 November 2008 1:31 AM
To: help at lists.whatwg.org
Subject: Re: [html5] dialog
The definition of dialog is very similar to that of conversation, and both definitions are wide enough anyway. I think <conversation> is a good looking tag ;-).
On the other hand, dialog sounds better than talking, but there is a more important reason for not using <dialog/> (discussed, off course, especially for those having some previous XUL experience).
LRR
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote:
James Craig writes:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>
> > Cool, thanks. I wouldn't mind changing the HTML5 element's name, but
> > we had a discussion at one point where we considered something like
> > two dozen names and frankly <dialog> was the best one of the lot.
>
> Do you remember the other names?
* <dialogue> (too confusing to have homophones)
* <conversation> (but it might not be)
* <converse> (imperitive rather than noun)
* <convo> (but might not be a conversation>
* <cl> (not intuitive)
* <discussion> (but it might not be)
* <discourse> (too many other meanings)
* <transcript> (but things other than dialogue have transcripts>
* <speech> (misinterpretable as _a_ speech, that is a monologue)
* <talk> (misinterpretable a _a_ talk, that is a presentation (slides?))
* <talking> (Ian preferred <dialog>)
> To avoid bloat and since 'dl' was originally intended for any paired
> list, including dialogs[1], perhaps it should be left as a simple 'dl',
<dl> is now being defined as a list of associations between names and
values. That doesn't quite work in a conversation where people speak on
multiple distinct occasions.
Smylers
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