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Figure out what to do about <dl>
The stumptown-status.md document mentions that Markdown doesn't support <dl>, and that we use it a lot, but does not offer any suggestion on what we will do about this. A solution needs to be decided upon.
I'm a bit in over my head here but what we're doing with mdn2 is that we leave stuff like element's attributes in a structure format and use <dl> etc in the rendered. I.e. https://github.com/mdn/stumptown-experiment/tree/master/content/html/elements/video/attributes
Other than such linear structured content, I think there's a lots of values in accepting Markdown for its flaws in favor of its ubiquitousness. Kinda like accepting JSON as is.
I'm not sure the premise of the issue is quite right. You can use raw HTML in Markdown files, including <dl>s. Though I appreciate not wanting to write raw HTML. The question might be more along the lines of: are there workarounds (like Peter suggests)? Or do we need to extend our Markdown in someway to accommodate <dl>s.
@a2sheppy My example is interesting in that it produces <dl> HTML in the final (MDN) product (a.k.a. the rendered HTML). Also, if you, independent of philosophy and strategy, you can used <dl> in the Markdown.
Do you think this issue is complete and can be closed now?
...if there are more specific problems later where neither of the above mentioned ideas work, then we can file up a new specific issue.