[whatwg] Thoughts on HTML 5

Krzysztof Żelechowski giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl
Wed May 14 03:24:54 PDT 2008


I recommend <transcript> because it refers to a conversation that has
been put down, as compared to a live <conversation> (I do not recommend
introducing the latter, of course, as HTML is not live).

Chris

Dnia 2008-05-14, śro o godzinie 11:31 +0900, Karl Dubost pisze:
> Le 14 mai 2008 à 07:09, Ian Hickson a écrit :
> > That's probably the best suggestion so far, but I'm still not  
> > convinced
> > it's really much better than <dialog>. I think it has at least as many
> > other interpretations (e.g. what we call a "talk" over here is  
> > really a
> > slide show).
> 
> food for thoughts
> 
> * <colloquy>
> * <conversation> (probably too long)
> * <chat>      (probably too IRC, messenger oriented, though here
>                 I suspect my own distortion field. People often says
>                 "let's have a chat".)
> * <dialogue>  (was wondering if it was less geeky than dialog, not sure)
> * <discourse>
> * <speech>
> * <talking>
> * <converse>
> 
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