It's not tabular data, it's a linear stream of images with captions. One way
of looking at it is to take the thumbs and associated text and jumble the
sequence; do that with a proper table grid and you'll have a mess since the
row and columnar formats will be meaningless.
For instance --
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Cost 10 20 20 10 20 20 20
Unit 3 5 2 6 4 1 7
Cost/Sat = 20. It's position must remain fixed to make sense, although it
may possibly remain true in another location. Incorporate the Unit value of
the matrix and moving anything invalidates the results. This is a table;
rows and columns point to specific cells; rows and columns have meaning.
Move the cell values within the grid and the results are nonsense.
Not so with a sequence of images (unless, of course, you're ordering them
alphabetically but that's not the issue).
Make sense?
Mike Pepper
Accessible Web Developer (after a great night's sleep)
www.seowebsitepromotion.com
www.gawds.org
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Rick Faaberg
Sent: 05 June 2004 05:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WSG] Centering a liquid grid of image thumbs and captions
On 6/4/04 9:10 PM "Nick Gleitzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent this out:
> A parting thought: does a series of thumbnail/caption pairs actually
qualify
> as tabular data - thus leaving me feeling better about giving up and using
a
> table to lay the bloody thing out anyway?
That was my first thought when I began to read about your angst.
It's tabular data - deal with that way. Get it over with.
I'm no authority.
Rick Faaberg
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