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phranque - 10:48 am on Dec 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

we might as well open up that whole can!

i've been waiting for "the semantic web" to become a reality since i read tb-l's book.
like p1r, i believe the time is ripe for G et al to reward those who use the full semantic power of existing html tags.
in that light i distilled a list of tags and attributes which i think should be used primarily for semantics and structure rather than style and presentation.

obvious but often forgotten:

<h1> to <h6> - header 1 to header 6
<img> - use the alt attribute, don't forget about longdesc attribute
<a> - rel and rev attributes

tags for tabular content:

<table> - table (use the summary attribute)
<caption> - table caption

<colgroup> - groups of table columns
<col> - attributes for table columns

<thead> - table header (group of rows)
<tbody> - table body (group of rows)
<tfoot> - table footer (group of rows)

<tr> - table row
<td> - table cell (check out abbr, axis, headers & scope attributes)
<th> - table header (a special type of cell)

tags for lists of things:

<ol> - ordered list
<ul> - unordered list
<li> - list item

<dl> - definition list (also can be used for dialogs)
<dt> - definition term (also can be used for speaker in dialogs)
<dd> - definition description (also can be used for speaker's words in dialogs)

tags for quotations:

<blockquote> - long quotation
<q> - short quotation ("cite" attribute looks interesting!)

tags for adding structure to phrases:

<em> - emphasis
<strong> - stronger emphasis
<dfn> - the defining instance of the enclosed term (as mentioned above)
<code> - fragment of computer code
<samp> - sample output from programs, scripts, etc.
<kbd> - text to be entered by the user
<var> - an instance of a variable or program argument
<cite> - citation or reference to other sources
<abbr> - abbreviated form (e.g., WWW, HTTP, URI, Mass., etc.)
<acronym> - acronym (e.g., WAC, radar, etc.)
<address> - as mentioned here [webmasterworld.com]

tags for form-related semantics:

<fieldset> - fieldset (of form elements)
<legend> - caption in a fieldset

<label> - label for a form control (use "for" attribute to associate to form element)
<optgroup> - group <options> within a <select> element

a tag for another post:

<link> - link to related documents - see [w3.org...] for the possibilities

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