> 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.

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sunshowers an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Bleh. is apparently now bring attention to. As if.

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extra88 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Eh, it's fine, elements should be defined for what they mean, not what they look like. The explanation and distinctions made between and other elements (, , ) make sense.

The suggested (not obligatory) user agent styling for 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 .

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics....

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/rendering.html#phrasi...

	▲	sunshowers 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I write most of my content in markdown or asciidoc and I don't pay attention to whether it's b or strong :)

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Ancapistani 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You’re not alone. This is the second time this week I’ve seen that, and thought it was a mistake the first time.

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xp84 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don’t want to check what year html5 was standardized because I think it may be north of a decade ;)

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zbentley 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> I think it may be north of a decade

Nearly two!

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stouset 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I was better off not knowing that this morning. Might be worth prefixing that tidbit of info with “trigger warning: the unrelenting passage of time”.

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HappMacDonald 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

There exist toddlers who were raised on Teletubbies that are now members of Congress

	▲	stouset 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I’m going to have to politely request that you stop this immediately.

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jasonlotito 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

TIL The name was changed from a definition list.

	▲	Tepix 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same here. I like definition list better ;-)