[uf-discuss] Chat microformat/podcast transcript

Kevin Marks kmarks at technorati.com
Fri Apr 14 01:55:21 PDT 2006


On Apr 14, 2006, at 12:42 AM, Chris Messina wrote:
>
> I disagree, but then I've always been a fan of DLs. The problem that I
> see with only using <q> <cite> and <bq> is that they're ways of
> loosely pairing a speaker and what they've said. I don't know of any
> way to closely couple the two.
>
> At least with DT and DD there's a clear correlation for the speaker
> with her/his words:
>
> speaker 1:
>     something that speaker 1 said
> speaker 2:
>     something that speaker 2 said

Thats why you use a list:
<ol>
<li><cite>Chris Messina</cite> <q>A chat is a list of 
definitions.</q></li>
<li><cite>Kevin Marks</cite> <q>No, a chat is a list of 
quotations.</q></li>
</ol>

Which has a very nice default rendering.



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