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> Prior to HTML5, this was called a definition list. This is because the <dl> was originally only intended to represent glossaries of terms and their definition
by captn3m0 5mo ago
> Prior to HTML5, this was called a definition list. This is because the <dl> was originally only intended to represent glossaries of terms and their definitions.
TIL I’ve been naming it wrong for a decade.
- xp84 5mo agoI don’t want to check what year html5 was standardized because I think it may be north of a decade ;)
- zbentley 5mo ago> I think it may be north of a decade Nearly two!
- stouset 5mo agoI was better off not knowing that this morning. Might be worth prefixing that tidbit of info with “trigger warning: the unrelenting passage of time”.
- HappMacDonald 5mo agoThere exist toddlers who were raised on Teletubbies that are now members of Congress
- stouset 5mo agoI’m going to have to politely request that you stop this immediately.
- jasonlotito 5mo agoTIL The name was changed from a definition list.
- Tepix 5mo agoSame here. I like definition list better ;-)
- Ancapistani 5mo agoYou’re not alone. This is the second time this week I’ve seen that, and thought it was a mistake the first time.
- sunshowers 5mo agoBleh. <b> is apparently now bring attention to. As if.
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- extra88 5mo agoEh, it's fine, elements should be defined for what they mean, not what they look like. The explanation and distinctions made between <b> and other elements (<i>, <em>, <strong>) make sense. The suggested (not obligatory) user agent styling for <b> is `font-weight: bolder` an agent or authors could use lots of different things to bring attention to what the element contains and treat it differently from <strong>. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-b-element https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.... https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/rendering.html#phrasing-content-3 https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/rendering.html#phrasi...
- sunshowers 5mo agoI write most of my content in markdown or asciidoc and I don't pay attention to whether it's b or strong :)
- extra88 5mo agoIn practice today, that's fine. Typically authors have a hard time differentiating what "emphasis," "importance," and "bring attention to" mean to them. Therefore, nothing conveys a distinction by default.
- sunshowers 5mo agoSo then what's the point of making this distinction? I would like to see surveys of how many people actually author content in forms that differentiate between b and strong.