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and I wonder how the <ul><li> somehow survived unscathed and free from the semantic witch hunt of yore. shouldn't we replace them with: <div style="display:lis

by cyphunk 11y ago

and I wonder how the <ul><li> somehow survived unscathed and free from the semantic witch hunt of yore. shouldn't we replace them with: <div style="display:list-type; type-of-list:unordered"> <div style="display:list-item;"> ?

lucideer 11y ago
This comment doesn't make any sense. A list is a thing, just as a table is... What are you trying to say?
- tjic 11y ago
  Down vote for "doesn't make sense". It made perfect sense to me. The phrase you were looking for is " I don't understand what you're saying."
  - wtallis 11y ago
    Then perhaps you would like to explain it? The most meaningful interpretation I can see is that the commenter completely misunderstood the nature of the "semantic witch hunt" to which he referred. It seems charitable to assume that something was lost in translation and to ask for clarification rather than to assume that the commenter was just saying something stupid.
    - exodust 11y ago
      Very true, and such charity doesn't help the discussion. Insisting on the polite path, "I don't understand" instead of "your comment makes no sense" wrongly assumes that all comments written on forums are carefully considered and fact-checked before posting. It's taking the long way to resolution of that point, and you might never get resolution if bogged down in overly-polite discourse for fear of being "negative".
  - nness 11y ago
    The phrase the poster was looking for was that "the example provided was hyperbole." Your comment is far too confrontational.
danellis 11y ago
If you go down that path, there are no semantic elements left at all.
baddox 11y ago
The "semantic witch hunt" against using tables for page layout exists not because the table tag is a semantic tag, but rather because pages are not tables. Likewise, ul and li tags are semantic, and I think most people would advise against using them for something other than unordered lists and list items. Of course, the issue would probably come up rarely, since the browser stylesheets for those tags don't do anything particularly useful for anything other than lists and list items.

by cyphunk 11y ago

lucideer 11y ago

This comment doesn't make any sense. A list is a thing, just as a table is... What are you trying to say?

tjic 11y ago
Down vote for "doesn't make sense". It made perfect sense to me. The phrase you were looking for is " I don't understand what you're saying."
- wtallis 11y ago
  Then perhaps you would like to explain it? The most meaningful interpretation I can see is that the commenter completely misunderstood the nature of the "semantic witch hunt" to which he referred. It seems charitable to assume that something was lost in translation and to ask for clarification rather than to assume that the commenter was just saying something stupid.
  - exodust 11y ago
    Very true, and such charity doesn't help the discussion. Insisting on the polite path, "I don't understand" instead of "your comment makes no sense" wrongly assumes that all comments written on forums are carefully considered and fact-checked before posting. It's taking the long way to resolution of that point, and you might never get resolution if bogged down in overly-polite discourse for fear of being "negative".
- nness 11y ago
  The phrase the poster was looking for was that "the example provided was hyperbole." Your comment is far too confrontational.

danellis 11y ago

If you go down that path, there are no semantic elements left at all.

baddox 11y ago

The "semantic witch hunt" against using tables for page layout exists not because the table tag is a semantic tag, but rather because pages are not tables. Likewise, ul and li tags are semantic, and I think most people would advise against using them for something other than unordered lists and list items. Of course, the issue would probably come up rarely, since the browser stylesheets for those tags don't do anything particularly useful for anything other than lists and list items.