On 12/12/05, Emma Dobrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's suppose you have a page that involves tabular data. You got two > versions of this page, one built with divs/spans/lists and another one built > with tables. Both versions are css enhanced. > Why would you call one "css driven" and the other one not?
Huh? How did this get so confusing? Let's say you have an unordered list, and a bunch of spans. Both versions are CSS enhanced. But the version with spans requires floats and clears to work. ** Let's say you turn CSS off ** Which one still looks like a list? That one is not CSS driven. It is CSS enhanced. As for the one that no longer looks like a list, it's layout was completely CSS dependent. Without it, it's a run on paragraph. Wait a second, that makes no sense. So far the discussion on tables has been as weird as the example I just gave. To something more realistic... let's say you have tabular data in a table, and something that looks like a table, when CSS is on. Wait. We are comparing apples and oranges. Paint the orange red, fine, but the comparison is weird. Tabular data goes in a table. Let's compare apples and apples: Say you have tabular data in a table, and tabular data in a table. The first table uses font tags, b, i, u, spacer gifs,  , empty cells, etc. The second is totally awesome like any of these: http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/ Now let's say you turn CSS off. Which one falls back to the browser defaults? That one is CSS driven. This is what I was saying all along... we are talking about markup that is driven by CSS, so let's not compare two different forms of markup using the same CSS, but rather, the same form of markup using CSS or something else. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
