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Demiurge | on: On The <dl> (2021)
I love DL. I think tables, at least in the past, were misused as DLs even more in the past and the inconvenience of the table markup is even worse than a bunch of divs.
enriquto | parent | next
It's not that inconvenient if you omit unnecessary closing tags:

    <tr>
    <td> first
    <td> second
    <tr>
    <td> what
    <td> ever
I find it simpler and cleaner than any of the markdown table markups
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bdcravens | parent | next
You're right, but forcing tables to cosplay as DLs was far from the worst way that tables were abused.
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egeozcan | parent
I always thought the DL as a single row of a table.