[WSG] Semantic or no?

2012-03-02 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello Listers, Quick question (maybe). I've seen a few sliders that use unordered lists as their base structure, using LI's as each 'slide', and allow devs to put anything (HTML structures, as opposed to just an image) into the LI's. Is putting block elements into an LI really semantically

Re: [WSG] Semantic or no?

2012-03-02 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Run it through a validator and find out... (spoilers: yes) On 02/03/2012 16:39, Tom Livingston wrote: Hello Listers, Quick question (maybe). I've seen a few sliders that use unordered lists as their base structure, using LI's as each 'slide', and allow devs to put anything (HTML structures,

Re: [WSG] Semantic or no?

2012-03-02 Thread Tom Livingston
Thank you Patrick. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Patrick H. Lauke re...@splintered.co.uk wrote: Run it through a validator and find out... (spoilers: yes) On 02/03/2012 16:39, Tom Livingston wrote: Hello Listers, Quick question (maybe). I've seen a few sliders that use unordered

[WSG] list heading – best practice?

2012-03-02 Thread Hanspeter Kadel
hey listeners, i'm wondering whats the best way to entitle a list. looks like back in 1984 people could use LH for the job. how to do it in 2012? thanks! hans *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] list heading – best practice?

2012-03-02 Thread David Dorward
On 2 Mar 2012, at 17:07, Hanspeter Kadel wrote: looks like back in 1984 people could use LH for the job. No, they couldn't. It was proposed for HTML 3, but that spec was ditched in favour of documenting the then current state of the browser wars. how to do it in 2012? h? before the

Re: [WSG] list heading – best practice?

2012-03-02 Thread Hanspeter Kadel
h? before the list. thats the way i do it, but it doesn't feel right. in most of my cases the UL is more secondary content, like menus etc. i want to keep H1 to H6 for structuring the main content. *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] list heading - best practice?

2012-03-02 Thread coder
ul li class=title strongQuick links/strong /li li a href=noticeboard.html title=news and Notices Noticeboard /a /li li

RE: [WSG] list heading - best practice?

2012-03-02 Thread Dan Freeman
I wouldn't recommend that. It may look OK stylistically, but not semantically. I believe H? before the list makes the most sense. - Dan Freeman -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of coder Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012