It's not that inconvenient if you omit unnecessary closing tags:
<tr> <td> first <td> second <tr> <td> what <td> ever
Fair point, though /DT and /DD are also optional just like /TH, /TD and /TR are. So in effect, def…scription list could structurally save you one TR for each entry and two "BLE"s:
<table><tr><th>Term 1<td>Definition 1 <tr><th>Term 2<td>Definition 2 </table> <dl><dt>Term 1<dd>Definition 1 <dt>Term 2<dd>Definition 2 </dl>
Isn't markdown table just a bunch of | ?
Fair point, though /DT and /DD are also optional just like /TH, /TD and /TR are. So in effect, def…scription list could structurally save you one TR for each entry and two "BLE"s: