Hey everybody,
I just asked for some advice on css-d, regarding gallery
pages, very similar to www.strombergarchitectural.com/products.php
- the same pages I asked for help on with cleaner, more semantic code on this
list not too long ago. The advice I received from several people, and
(X)HTML is so dualistic sometimes. Meaning that there are so many ways
that work fine but yet they are still not correct. In your case, the
extremes argue no tables, period vs tables within tables within
tables. The same extreme views apply to lists as well. The best use of
(X)HTML is to
Jan Brasna wrote:
Well, although definition lists are IMHO OK, I use just anonymous
elements (+ headings, paragraphs etc.) -
http://wellstyled.com/css-photo-cards.html or
http://murphy.cz/hofy/galerie-plavacek.htm
Jan,
I see how the technique on the two pages you linked to works, and I like
Chris,
Thanks for your response. It's funny - before I went to using unordered
lists for this, I had been using ALA's recommendation. However I wasn't
very happy with it semantically.
Ted Drake made this distinction: With the current div setup, you have
information but there is no connection
On Jan 4, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Collin Davis wrote:
I don't agree with either position - I think tables should be used when
displaying tabular data, but definitely not overused as is the case
when
using tables for presentation.
Sorry, I left out the sentence that I meant to say And neither of
those
The only thing I would bring up with regards to the markup is that I really
don't see how those elements could be marked up as paragraphs.
I definitely agree with you Collin. I just want to show this as an
example how to structure it in a different way than by some types of
lists. It is neither
Collin Davis wrote:
Tables wouldnt do this. Also, lists are just easier for me to use
than tables, and tables create more code weight than do lists. Anybody
have thoughts on this?
Well, for me, the deciding factor on using a table is if the elements contained
in the table are 2 dimensional.
Collin Davis wrote:
I just asked for some advice on css-d, regarding gallery pages, very
similar to www.strombergarchitectural.com/products.php
http://www.strombergarchitectural.com/products.php - the same pages I
asked for help on with cleaner, more semantic code on this list not too
long
Charles Martin wrote:
Well, for me, the deciding factor on using a table is if the elements
contained in the table are 2 dimensional. In other words, can they be
grouped in two dimensions. For example, a list of population grouped by
cities AND age ranges would be two dimensional and would
Jan Brasna wrote:
(PS: I'm sorry for my English, I hope you can understand it...)
Your English is far better than my Czech ;)
Cheers,
Collin Davis - ACE, MCP
Web Architect
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Paul Novitski wrote:
At 11:34 AM 1/4/05, Charles Martin wrote:
Tables wouldn't do this. Also, lists are just easier for me to use
than tables, and tables create more code weight than do lists.
Anybody have thoughts on this?
Well, for me, the deciding factor on using a table is if the elements
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